network location models comprise one of the main categories of location models. these models have various applications in regional and urban planning as well as in transportation, distribution, and energy management. in a network location problem, nodes represent demand points and candidate locations to locate the facilities. if the links network is unchangeably determined, the problem will be ...

purpose: to determine the amplitude and facility of accommodation after photorefractive keratectomy (prk) in myopic subjects. methods: the study was performed on 160 eyes of 80 patients aged 19 to 72 years. amplitude and facility of accommodation was evaluated before and 2 weeks and one and three months after prk. amplitude of accommodation was evaluated by “minus lens” method and facility of a...

a facility layout problem is concerned with determining the best position of departments, cells, or machines on the plant. an efficient layout contributes to the overall efficiency of operations. it’s been proved that, when system characteristics change, it can cause a significant increase in material handling cost. consequently, the efficiency of the current layout decreases or is lost and it ...

the present study investigated oil/water demulsification and treatment of oily wastewater originated from port waste reception facilities by electro coagulation using aluminum electrodes in a batch reactor. the efficiency of al electrodes in removing ss, cod, and oil & grease from wastewater with different current densities and operational times were investigated. the characteristics of th...

the dynamic facility layout problem (dflp) is the problem of finding positions of departments onthe plant floor for multiple periods (material flows between departments change during the planning horizon)such that departments do not overlap, and the sum of the material handling and rearrangement costs isminimized. in this paper a new optimization algorithm inspired from colonizing weeds, invasi...

in this study, we discuss the capacitated facility location-allocation problem with uncertain parameters in which the uncertainty is characterized by given finite numbers of scenarios. in this model, the objective function minimizes the total expected costs of transportation and opening facilities subject to the robustness constraint. to tackle the problem efficiently and effectively, an effici...