different decisions, including location decisions of companies which are operating in international dynamic environment are subject to significant uncertainty.so in this research an international facility location problem under uncertainty is considered and an integrated model for strategic and operational planning is presented. in strategic level countries are assessed according to internation...

A heuristic method for solving large-scale multi–facility location problems is presented. The method is analogous to Cooper’s method [3], using the authors’ single facility location method [20] as a parallel subroutine, and reassigning customers to facilities using the heuristic of Nearest Center Reclassification. Numerical results are reported.

Abstract The purpose of this study is to consider an international facility location problem under uncertainty and present an integrated model for strategic and operational planning. The paper offers two methodologies for the location selection decision. First the extended VIKOR method for decision making problem with interval numbers is presented as a methodology for strategic evaluation of po...

BACKGROUND In the past few decades many countries have worked to increase the number of women delivering in facilities, with the goal of improving maternal and neonatal health outcomes. The purpose of this study is to explore the current situation of facility deliveries in Africa and Asia to understand where and with whom women deliver. Furthermore, we aim to test potential drivers of facility ...

We present a quadratic programming formulation for the problem of obtaining optimal maintenance and repair policies for multi-facility transportation infrastructure systems. The proposed model provides a computationally-tractable framework to support decision-making, while accounting for economic interdependencies that link the facilities that comprise these systems. To demonstrate the advantag...

This paper describes the development of the Robotarium – a remotely accessible, multi-robot research facility. The impetus behind the Robotarium is that multi-robot testbeds constitute an integral and essential part of the multi-agent research cycle, yet they are expensive, complex, and time-consuming to develop, operate, and maintain. These resource constraints, in turn, limit access for large...

In this paper we introduce a new type of single facility location problems on networks which includes as special cases most of the classical criteria in the literature. Structural results as well as a nite dominating set for the optimal locations are developed. Also the extension to the multi-facility case is discussed.

The multi-language environment Synchronie supports the design and formal verification of synchronous reactive systems. It integrates three synchronous languages and also three ways to specify properties: the temporal logic with future operators CTL, the temporal logic with past operators Past TL, and observers, which are particular synchronous programs. It is argued that this multi-language fea...

A conceptual design study for a future multi-turn ERL based light source at HZB is completed and presently under internal review. The Femto-Science-Factory (FSF) is a candidate for a 4 generation diffraction limited synchrotron light source. It will provide its users with ultra-bright photons of angstrom wavelength at 6GeV. The FSF is intended to be a multi-user facility and offer a wide variet...