This paper proposes a novel facility location model for health service network design by considering different key elements including the reliability aspects, service capacity, congestion, service quality, surrounding public infrastructures, geographical accessibility and several types of cost such as investment, transportation and operational costs. We formulate the problem as a robust scenari...

The Data Center Observatory (DCO) was conceived to guide and enable experimental research into data center automation and effi ciency. The DCO will be a fully-instrumented operational data center at Carnegie Mellon, simultaneously used as a utility and as a research vehicle. Its computation and storage resources will be a utility for CMU research activities, from data mining to CAD/architecture...

A benchmark simulation model for membrane bioreactors (BSM-MBR) was developed to evaluate operational and control strategies in terms of effluent quality and operational costs. The configuration of the existing BSM1 for conventional wastewater treatment plants was adapted using reactor volumes, pumped sludge flows and membrane filtration for the water-sludge separation. The BSM1 performance cri...

The Airline Operations Control Centre (AOCC) tries to solve unexpected problems that might occur during the airline operation. Problems related to aircrafts, crewmembers and passengers are common and the actions towards the solution of these problems are usually known as operations recovery. Usually, the AOCC tries to minimize the operational costs while satisfying all the required rules. In th...

Production Planning (PP) aims at making production decisions optimizing the Manufacturing and Supply Chain performances. Given a limited amount of manufacturing resources, raw materials, and inventory space, PP minimizes the overall manufacturing and supply chain costs while meeting service level requirements and obeying operational constraints. In this research we focus on the sequencedependen...