HLP (hub location problem) tries to find locations of hub facilities and assignment of nodes to extended facilities. Hubs are facilities to collect, arrange, and distribute commodities in telecommunication networks, cargo delivery systems, etc. Hubs are very crucial and their inaccessibility impresses on network whole levels. In this paper, first, total reliability of the network is defined bas...

The De-Novo programming problem proposed by Zeleny is well-known for its value on designing an optimal system by extending existed resources instead of finding the optimum in a given system with fixed resources. Since few papers are dedicated to explore the De-Novo programming problem with multiple stages and its resolution approach, the De-Novo programming problem is innovatively extended to a...

in this paper, we develop a freight transportation model for railway network considering hazmat transportation issue. in the transportation system considered, different customers can request for carrying hazmat and non- hazmat boxes. it is assumed that the sequence of the trains in the network is known. the objective is assigning the non-hazmat boxes and hazmat boxes to wagons of the trains so ...

Three types of fuzzy random programming for capacitated location-allocation problem with fuzzy random demands are proposed according to different criteria, including the expected value model, chanceconstrained programming and dependent-chance programming. Finally, integrating the network simplex algorithm, fuzzy random simulation and genetic algorithm, a hybrid intelligent algorithm is produced...

Several authors have used ranking function for solving fuzzy linear programming problems. In this paper some fuzzy linear programming problems are chosen which can’t be solved by using any of the existing methods and a new method is proposed to solve such type of fuzzy linear programming problems. The main advantage of the proposed method over existing methods is that the fuzzy linear programmi...