Operational Research: methods and applications

F Petropoulos, G Laporte, E Aktas… - Journal of the …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract Throughout its history, Operational Research has evolved to include methods,
models and algorithms that have been applied to a wide range of contexts. This …

A flexible robust model for blood supply chain network design problem

S Khalilpourazari, H Hashemi Doulabi - Annals of operations research, 2023 - Springer
Abstract World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 as a pandemic On March 12,
2020. Up to January 13, 2022, 320,944,953 cases of infection and 5,539,160 deaths have …

A stochastic bi-objective simulation–optimization model for plasma supply chain in case of COVID-19 outbreak

H Shirazi, R Kia, P Ghasemi - Applied Soft Computing, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract As of March 24, 2020, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized to bleed
the newly recovered from Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), ie, the ones whose lives …

A DEA-based simulation-optimisation approach to design a resilience plasma supply chain network: a case study of the COVID-19 outbreak

P Ghasemi, F Goodarzian, V Simic… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This study develops a novel multi-objective mathematical model for a Plasma Supply Chain
Network (PSCN) in order to maximise the coverage of blood donors during periods and …

Robust box Approach for blood supply chain network design under uncertainty: hybrid moth-flame optimization and genetic algorithm

J Ghahremani-Nahr, H Nozari, M Bathaee - International journal of innovation …, 2021 - ijie.ir
In this paper, a blood supply chain network (BSCN) is designed to reduce the total cost of
the supply chain network under demand and transportation costs. The network levels …

Collaborative activities for matching supply and demand in the platelet network

MRG Samani, SM Hosseini-Motlagh - Expert Systems with Applications, 2023 - Elsevier
Efficient planning is necessary to coordinate and match supply and demand in blood
networks, which can help to prevent wastage and shortage caused by unpredictable supply …

Blood supply chain network design: a systematic review of literature and implications for future research

G Agac, B Baki, IM Ar - Journal of Modelling in Management, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose The purpose of this study is to systematically review the existing literature on the
blood supply chain (BSC) from a network design perspective and highlight the research …

Blood inventory management: Ordering policies for hospital blood banks under uncertainty

M Meneses, I Marques… - … in Operational Research, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The blood supply chain faces several challenges, such as stochastic demand and supply,
the relation between the various stages of the chain, and the intrinsic nature of the product …

[HTML][HTML] A supply chain network design for blood and its products using genetic algorithm: A case study of Turkey

G Agac, B Baki, IM Ar, HT Kahraman - Journal of Industrial and …, 2023 - aimsciences.org
In the paper, a novel mathematical model for blood supply chain network and a variant of
Genetic Algorithm for the problem are proposed. The proposed mathematical model is …

[HTML][HTML] Iterative matheuristic for the biomedical sample transportation problem

C Mazzanti, AM Anaya-Arenas, V Bélanger… - Computers & Industrial …, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper proposes an iterative matheuristic for solving the biomedical sample
transportation problem (BSTP), which is a routing problem with multiple and interdependent …