discrete facility location,   distribution center,   logistics,   inventory policy,   queueing theory,   markov processes, the distribution center location problem is a crucial question for logistics decision makers. the optimization of these decisions needs careful attention to the fixed facility costs, inventory costs, transportation costs and customer responsiveness. in this paper we study t...

well-known seismic design codes have offered an alternative equivalent static procedure for practical purposes instead of verifying design trials with complicated step-y-step dynamic analyses. such a pattern of base-shear distribution over the building height will enforce its special stiffness and strength distribution which is not necessarily best suited for seismic design. the present study, ...

1 Department of Statistics, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran Naghshejahan Institute of Higher Education, Baharestan, Isfahan, Iran. Email: [email protected] 2 Department of Statistics, St. Anthony’s College, Shillong, Meghalaya, India. Email: [email protected] 3 Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Email: [email protected] 4 D...

Rayleigh distribution is one of the well-known continuous distribution developed by Lord Rayleigh and J.W. Strutt (1880, 1919) used in modeling lifetime data. A reciprocal transformation of Rayleigh variable generates inverse Rayleigh distribution derived by Voda (1972) which is also being used in lifetime experiments. While keeping in mind the famous of Rayleigh and inverse Rayleigh distributi...