network location models comprise one of the main categories of location models. these models have various applications in regional and urban planning as well as in transportation, distribution, and energy management. in a network location problem, nodes represent demand points and candidate locations to locate the facilities. if the links network is unchangeably determined, the problem will be ...

\ Dr Craig M. Zimring is an environmental psychologist and associate professor of architecture and of psychology at the College of Architecture of the Georgia Institute of Technology. His research and practice focuses on environmental design evaluation and other aids to organizational decision making about correctional facilities, offices and other bUilding types, and on stress and environmenta...

Operations research (OR) is concerned with scientifically deciding how to best design and operate people–machine systems, usually under conditions requiring the allocation of scarce resources. This publication, one of a series, is offered to supervisors, lead people, middle managers, and anyone who has responsibility for operations planning in manufacturing facilities or corporate planning over...

This publication, like its predecessor, examines educational trends potentially influencing the planning and design of school facilities. Although we can’t know exactly how such trends might play out in the future, their thoughtful consideration during the planning and design process could have a profound effect on how successfully a new or renovated school will perform over its useful life. Th...

the decisions made in the planning phase of a building project greatly affect its future operation and maintenance (o&m;) cost. recognizing the o&m; cost of condominiums’ common facilities as a critical issue for home owners, this research aims to develop an artificial neural network (ann) o&m; cost prediction model to assist developers and architects in effectively assessing the impacts of the...

This paper highlights the opportunities and challenges of applying Discrete Event Simulation (DES) to support capacity planning of a network of outpatient facilities. Despite an abundance of studies using simulation techniques to examine the operation and performance of outpatient clinics, the problem of capacity allocation and planning of medical services within a network of outpatient healthc...

Complex soflware environments, such as CAD systems, consist of many modules which are often created, maintained, and executed separately. When slick systems are invoked, appropriate execution sequences and parameters must be determined for each modiile so that desired results are produced. The task of planning, executing, and supervising the CAD environments has become so complex that it itself...