Against the background of supply chains, this paper constructs a class Hotelling model to describe and explore sequential auctions of close substitutes with slightly more general associated valuations. In this generalized ...

In recent years, the theory of complex fuzzy sets has captured the attention of many researchers, and research in this area has intensified in the past five years. However, almost all of the researchers in this area have ...

In this paper, we address the surgical case scheduling problem in multi operating theater environment with uncertain service times in order to minimize makespan. In surgical case scheduling, not only the hospital resources ...

This article is about Bayesian estimation of parameters of a heterogeneous 3-component mixture of Rayleigh distributions (3-CMRD) generating a mixture data. Being the most popular and reasonable sampling scheme in reliability ...

Although after an earthquake the injured person should be equipped with food, shelter and hygiene activities, before anything must be searched and rescued. But disaster management (DM) has focused heavily on emergency ...

This paper presents a new cell formation and cell layout problem considering multiple process routings and subcontracting using the principles of queuing theory. It is assumed that each machine operates as an M/M/1 queuing ...

This paper presents a framework for solving risk response action selection problem by considering: (1) the impact of risk events on the project objectives, (2) the interactions between risk events and (3) management criteria ...