this paper presents a multi-objective linear programming model for disaster blood supply chain in some periods of time after disaster. this model assist to determine the quantity and location of facilities and also how to allocate blood to facilities. in this study, a three-level model is described, while blood is collected from temporary and permanent facilities and sent to blood center. blood...

The buffer allocation problem (BAP) has been widely studied by researchers while pursuing diverse research goals. Similarly, the cross-entropy method has been applied to a variety of optimisation problems with single objectives. In this article it is extended to the multiobjective case and proposed as a computationally economic approach to optimise at least two conflicting objectives of the BAP...

The design of most process control is essentially a dynamic multi-objective optimization problem (Meadowcroft et al., 1992), sometimes with nonlinear characters, and in which both economic benefit and social benefit should be considered. Commonly speaking, there are contradictory objectives such as quantity of products, quality of products, safety of manufacturing, cost of manufacturing, enviro...