data grids support access to widely distributed storage for large numbers of users accessing potentially many files. to enhance access time, replication at nearby sites may be used. data replication, a technique much investigated bydata grid researchers in past years creates multiple replicas offile and places them in conventional locations to shorten fileaccess times. one of the problems in da...

the aim of this research was to investigate the location and accessibility of urmia sport centers concerning national and international standards. the research was applicable, analytical and descriptive. statistical population consisted of all sport centers of urmia physical education department. statistical sample equaled the statistical population (29 sport centers). data were collected by a ...

The main purpose of this paper is to present a fuzzy multi-criteria decision making (FMADM) model for appropriate location selection of a health center. Therefore, we identify sixteen criteria and sub-criteria for selecting a health center location. These criteria and sub-criteria have been obtained from literature reviews and practical interviews. This paper proposes a method which combines th...

Abstract The location selection (LS) problem identifies an optimal site to place a new facility such that its influence on given objects can be maximized. With the proliferation of GPS-enabled mobile devices, LS studies have made progress for moving objects. However, state-of-the-art techniques over assume has no competitor, which is too restrictive and unrealistic real-world business. In this ...