Designing efficient urban fire service systems is of crucial importance as prompt responses to emergencies and accidents can drastically reduce property loss mortality. To achieve these goals, holistic location-allocation models for cooperative services must consider multiple factors, such station size, vehicle quantity, type, response time, reliability, traffic condition. This paper proposes a...

With the ever increasing number of functionally similar web services being available on Internet, market competition is becoming intense. Web service providers (WSPs) realize that good Quality Service (QoS) a key business success and low network latency critical measurement QoS. Because related to location, straightforward way reduce allocate proper locations. However, Location Allocation Probl...

Location-allocation of facilities in service systems is an essential factor of their performance. One of the considerable situations which less addressed in the relevant literature is to balance service among customers in addition to minimize location-allocation costs. This is an important issue, especially in the public sector. Reviewing the recent researches in this field shows that most of t...