• A location-allocation problem under uncertainty is investigated. two-stage stochastic programming model proposed. The mode solved by sample average approximation. Emergencies, especially those considered routine (i.e., occurring on a daily basis), pose great threats to health, life, and property. Immediate response treatment can greatly mitigate these threats. This research conducted optimize...

BACKGROUND Location-allocation is a combinatorial optimization problem, and is defined as Non deterministic Polynomial Hard (NP) hard optimization. Therefore, solution of such a problem should be shifted from exact to heuristic or Meta heuristic due to the complexity of the problem. Locating medical centers and allocating injuries of an earthquake to them has high importance in earthquake disas...

The main purpose of any facility location is to select the optimal places that satisfy project's goals. In location problems, the object is usually to optimize a function objective function that defines the problem conditions and efficient decision parameters. Numerous methods are proposed to challenge the location facility issues. In this paper, we consider a class of location/allocation probl...

in this paper, we develop a capacitated location-covering model considering interval values for demand and service parameters. we also consider flexibility on distance standard for covering demand nodes by the servers. we use the satisfaction degree to represent the constraint of service capacity. the proposed model belongs to the class of mixed integer programming models. our model can be redu...