In healthcare, the planning and the management of resources are challenging as there are
always many complex and stochastic factors in both demand and supply. Simulation …

Self-services by widely-deployed stations allow customers to pick up their packages
themselves and have great potential to reduce last-mile delivery cost by aggregating spatial …

We propose a model to design bundles' composition under competition, quantifying its effect
in terms of profit and market share in a game among competing firms. According to our …

This paper presents a multi-criteria methodology for allocating a small number of novel
robotic devices to a set of potential treatment centres in the South of the UK. The robotic …

With the continuous upgrading of consumer demand and retail modes, more and more
retailers are switching to an omnichannel retail mode. In order to study the location problem …

Hard-to-access health infrastructure is likely to lead to increased morbidity and mortality. The
optimal layout of health facilities is significant for disease control and prevention. This study …

Hospital choice models often employ random utility theory and include waiting time as a
choice determinant. When applied to evaluate health system improvement interventions …

A painful lesson got from pandemic COVID-19 is that preventive healthcare service is of
utmost importance to governments since it can make massive savings on healthcare …

Global health status has improved over years, yet non-infectious and lifestyle diseases are
burgeoning speedily and the danger of transmittable diseases remains incessant. The risks …

Healthcare capacity shortage contributes to poor access in many countries. Moreover, rapid
urbanization often occurring in these countries has exacerbated the imbalance between …