Controlling and maintaining public health in the face of diseases necessitates the effective
implementation of response strategies, including the distribution of vaccines. By distributing …

The COVID-19 virus's high transmissibility has resulted in the virus's rapid spread
throughout the world, which has brought several repercussions, ranging from a lack of …

This paper presents a novel model for the Vaccine Allocation Problem (VAP), which aims to
allocate the available vaccines to population locations over multiple periods during a …

A novel line balancing problem is considered. It differs from assembly line balancing
problems in that the operations of each workstation are partitioned into blocks of …

During the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries faced challenges in developing and
maintaining a reliable national pandemic vaccination calendar due to vaccine supply …

We present an agent-based simulation-optimization modeling framework to determine the
optimal location of warehouses for the distribution of vaccines. We first extend an agent …

In the event of routine immunizations for containing disease outbreaks, the Expanded
Programme on Immunization (EPI) led Low and Medium-Income Countries (LMICs) follow a …

Vaccination subsidy is one of the most important measures to increase the willingness of
people to be vaccinated for epidemic prevention and control. Given the budget constraint of …

Once effective vaccines are discovered for a pandemic and initial distribution infrastructure,
and mechanisms are implemented, the next concern is an optimal vaccination campaign to …

The present study investigates the cause-and-effect relationships between production
capacity decisions and the choice of distribution policy aspects of managing an extensive …