background and objectives: a sudden jump in blood demand during natural disasters may have strong negative impact on the performance of blood supply chain. appropriate response to the emergency situations, requires predictive approach to determining the optimal allocation of blood supply chain resources for various disaster scenarios. the present study, thus, presents an optimization model aime...

In the previous work, the authors have considered a discrete-time queueing system and they have established that, under some assumptions, the stationary queue length distribution for the system with capacity K1 is completely expressed in terms of the stationary distribution for the system with capacity K0 (> K1). In this paper, we study a sample-path version of this problem in more general sett...