Emergency medical services and beyond: Addressing new challenges through a wide literature review

R Aringhieri, ME Bruni, S Khodaparasti… - Computers & Operations …, 2017 - Elsevier
One of the most important health care services is emergency medical service as it plays a
vital role in saving people's lives and reducing the rate of mortality and morbidity. Over the …

[HTML][HTML] Multiple criteria facility location problems: A survey

RZ Farahani, M SteadieSeifi, N Asgari - Applied mathematical modelling, 2010 - Elsevier
This paper provides a review on recent efforts and development in multi-criteria location
problems in three categories including bi-objective, multi-objective and multi-attribute …

Covering models and optimization techniques for emergency response facility location and planning: a review

X Li, Z Zhao, X Zhu, T Wyatt - Mathematical Methods of Operations …, 2011 - Springer
With emergencies being, unfortunately, part of our lives, it is crucial to efficiently plan and
allocate emergency response facilities that deliver effective and timely relief to people most …

Operations research in healthcare: a survey

A Rais, A Viana - International transactions in operational …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Optimisation problems in Healthcare have received considerable attention for more than
three decades. More recently, however, with decreasing birth rates in nearly all of the …

Blood supply chain network design considering blood group compatibility under uncertainty

B Zahiri, MS Pishvaee - International journal of production research, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
This paper addresses the design of a blood supply chain (SC) network considering blood
group compatibility. To this aim, a bi-objective mathematical programming model is …

OR models in urban service facility location: A critical review of applications and future developments

RZ Farahani, S Fallah, R Ruiz, S Hosseini… - European journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Facility location models are well established in various application areas with more than a
century of history in academia. Since the 1970s the trend has been shifting from …

A probabilistic model applied to emergency service vehicle location

P Beraldi, ME Bruni - European journal of operational research, 2009 - Elsevier
This paper is concerned with the formulation and the solution of a probabilistic model for
determining the optimal location of facilities in congested emergency systems. The inherent …

[HTML][HTML] Blood collection management: Methodology and application

B Zahiri, SA Torabi, M Mousazadeh… - Applied Mathematical …, 2015 - Elsevier
Blood supply chains play a key role in the healthcare systems. Any improvement in the
management of these chains will have a direct impact on the supply of blood as a life-saving …

Maximal coverage location problem: impacts, significance, and evolution

AT Murray - International Regional Science Review, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
The maximal covering location problem was first introduced by Church and ReVelle in 1973
at the North American Regional Science Council meetings and subsequently published in …