A closed-loop supply chain network (CLSCN) is consisted of both forward and reverse supply chains. In this paper, a CLSCN is including multiple plants, collection centers, demand markets, products and disposal centers. The ...

In this paper, we restrict our attention to the efficient frontier of the BCC model, where the BCC model is a well-known basic model in Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). We here assume that each Decision Making Unit (DMU) ...

During the recent years, demand for healthcare services has dramatically increased. As the demand for healthcare services increases, so does the necessity of constructing new healthcare buildings and redesigning and ...

In real life, many events may have severe effects on human being lives. These events can happen casually such as accident, heart attack or another severe disease, and deliberately like fights among people. From the engineering ...

Agricultural production can be described by discrete time as there is harvest in every year only once. The agricultural production is uncertain because of the weather and the ever changing technology. At the same time, the ...

In this paper, the problem of determining the most general Lie point approximate symmetries group for the nonlinear filtration equation with a small parameter is analyzed. By applying the basic Lie approximate symmetry ...

This paper focuses on formulating a typical U-type assembly line balancing problem. A cost based objective function including equipment cost, worker time related cost, and station opening cost is introduced to be minimized ...