The Bonferroni mean (BM) has the advantages that it can capture the interrelationship among the input arguments, and the Harmonic mean is a conservative average lying between the max and min operators. The 2-dimension ...

This study provides a review of hypercube queuing models (HQMs) in emergency service systems (ESSs). This survey presents a comprehensive review and taxonomy of models, solutions and applications related to the HQM after ...

This paper presents a new multiple disinfection operation problem (MDOP) in which several buildings have to be sprayed with various disinfectants. The MDOP seeks to minimize the total cost of disinfection operations for ...

Randomized response is an efficacious and effective survey method to collect subtle information. It entitles respondents to respond to over-sensitive issues and defensive questions (such as criminal behavior, gambling ...

In recent decades, there are intensive researches on deteriorating inventory. However, only a few researchers focus on the inventory routing problem for deteriorating item. There are many items such as foods, electronic ...

Reliability improvement for electronics and mechanical systems is vital for engineers in order to design of these systems. For this reason, there are many researches in this scope to help engineers in real world applications. ...

Green supply chain management is a crucial challenge for the sustainable development of the enterprises. In this paper, we study the problem of supplier selection for the multi-attribute and multi-source green procurement ...

Time series prediction is a remarkable research interest, which is widely followed by scientists / researchers. Because many fields include analyzing processes over such time series, different kinds of approaches, methods, ...