Mismanagement of the blood supply chain is one of the reasons that intensifies the crisis during natural disasters. In this paper, a multi-echelon blood supply chain consisted of donors, portable blood facilities, blood ...

Optimizing the pattern of water consumption and institutionalizing the right structure in the consumer community will lead to improving the quality life parameters, eliminating the unnecessary financial costs and paving ...

This paper presents an effective memetic algorithm (MA) for a hybrid flow shop scheduling problem with multiprocessor tasks (HFSMT) to minimize the makespan. The problem is modeled as deterministic by a mixed graph. This ...

ABSTRACT This research presents four different mathematical formulations for the coordination and three stage supply chain optimization of agricultural products in Bangladesh. In this analysis, we assumed that the ...

Recent studies on determination of success criteria and critical success factors have gained a large share in project management research. However, there exist no “one-way" to define the project success. Meanwhile, it is ...

During the recent years, various research studies have been conducted on modeling the dynamic advertising process in the business realm. The competitive environment of this process has mostly been modeled using game theory, ...

One of the challenges facing supply chain management in Iran is the distribution system. In this regard, fast moving consumer goods are a group of commodities, which strongly require a coherent and efficient distribution ...

The derivatives market having a significant number of investors trading in futures contracts, is vulnerable to manipulation by some perpetrators. Protecting market participants from a prevalent manipulation called circular ...

Nowadays, hospitals are seeking to reduce their costs and to improve their financial circumstances. They are looking to reach the highest level of patient satisfaction as well. Operating rooms are one of the most critical ...