one of the most fundamental components of healthcare system on each country is blood supply chain management. this chain is comprised of two significant components including collecting donor’ bloods and supplying blood’s products. the main purpose of this paper is to concentrate on supplying blood products and present a novel constrained bi-objective mathematical model for a two-echelon blood s...

BACKGROUND The College of General Practitioners of Malaysia and the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners held the first Conjoint Member of the College of General Practitioners (MCGP)/Fellow of Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (FRACGP) examination in 1982, later renamed the Conjoint MAFP/FRACGP examinations. The examination assesses competency for safe independent g...

Cellular manufacturing (CM) is one of the most important subfields in the design of manufacturing systems and as a recently emerged field of study and practice, virtual cellular manufacturing (VCM) inherits the importance from CM. One type of VCM problems is VCM with alternative processing routes from which the route for processing each part should be selected. In this research, a bi-objective ...

0360-8352/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier Ltd. A http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cie.2012.08.005 ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +886 3 2118800x3713 E-mail addresses: [email protected] (C.-T. (H.-M. Chen), [email protected], (Z.-Y. Zhuang). The multi-segment goal programming (MSGP) model is an extension model of GP wherein the core thinking is inherited from the multi-choice goal program...

As an essential element of higher education, course planning at the program level is a complicated multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) problem. In addition, process tailored to sustainable development exceptionally important sustaining quality academic programs. However, there scarcity research on problem operational due diverse set stakeholder requirements in practice. Motivated by challenge...

In this paper, a bi-objective multi-product single-vendor single-buyer supply chain problem is studied under green vendor-managed inventory (VMI) policy based on the economic production quantity (EPQ) model. To bring the model closer to real-world supply chain, four constraints of model including backordering cost, number of orders, production budget and warehouse space are considered stochasti...