This study addresses a healthcare facility location/network design problem considering
equity and accessibility. Locating the healthcare facilities, planning the capacity of …

In robot-assisted manufacturing or assembly, following a predefined path became a critical
aspect. In general, inverse kinematics offers the solution to control the movement of …

The pandemic COVID-19 disease has had a dramatic impact on almost all countries around
the world so that many hospitals have been overwhelmed with COVID-19 cases. As medical …

Purpose The location of emergency medical service (EMS) facilities is a basic facility
location problem. Many scholars have examined this kind of problem, but research on the …

Many studies have considered the location of rural waste transfer stations, but most have
omitted the impact of transportation network conditions. Traffic accessibility must be …

This paper addresses the scheduling of robotic cells with job-dependent transportation and
set-up effects with fuzzy methodology. Since transportation and set-up times are a large …

Scientific location selection of schools is an important way to optimize the allocation of
educational resources, improve the efficiency of operating schools, and realize the balanced …

Under unpredictable global marketing conditions, this research tries to construct a model of
a two-echelon supply chain facility location problem with varied dimensions. With a …

The core idea of the fuzzy system is to avoid the accurate mathematical model and imitate
human brain to achieve fuzzy reasoning, it can not only convert language information into a …

There exist many real-world applications such as recommendation systems, document
retrieval, and computational biology where the correct ordering of instances is of equal or …