Facility location models are well established in various application areas with more than a
century of history in academia. Since the 1970s the trend has been shifting from …

We conduct a comprehensive review on multi-level facility location problems which extend
several classical facility location problems and can be regarded as a subclass within the …

In the last decade, aerial delivery system has been considered as a promising response to
increasing traffic jams and incremental demand for transportation. In this study, a distance …

Global supply chains are more than ever under threat of major disruptions caused by
devastating natural and man-made disasters as well as recurrent interruptions caused by …

Background Spatial accessibility to healthcare facilities has drawn much attention in health
geography. In China, central and local governments have aimed to develop a well …

This paper investigates the extent to which supply chain greening and buttressing (building
robustness) strategies are supportive or conflicting. A supply chain design model is …

Determining the best location to serve companies' profitability and sustainability is becoming
more crucial every day, since the rivalry between companies is getting more intense. The …

We present a stochastic optimisation model that can be used to design a resilient supply
chain operating under random disruptions. The model aims to determine sourcing and …

A location-inventory problem (LIP) aims to integrate strategic supply chain design decisions
with tactical and operational inventory management decisions. This study provides an …

Value-added services (eg, overlaid video advertisements) have become an integral part of
today's content delivery networks (CDNs). To offer cost-efficient, scalable, and more agile …