a b s t r a c tIn this study, a mobile blood collection system is designed with the primary objective of increasing blood collection levels. This design also takes into account operational costs to aim for collection of large amounts of blood at reasonable cost. Bloodmobiles perform direct tours to certain activities to collect blood, but at the end of each day, they bring the collected blood to a designated depot to prevent its spoilage. The proposed system consists of the bloodmobiles and a new vehicle called the shuttle that visits the bloodmobiles in the field on each day and transfers the collected blood to the depot. Consequently, bloodmobiles can continue their tours without having to make daily returns to the depot.We propose a mathematical model and a 2-stage IP based heuristic algorithm to determine the tours of the bloodmobiles and the shuttle, and their lengths of stay at each stop. This new problem is defined as an extension of the Selective Vehicle Routing Problem and is referred to as the SVRP with Integrated Tours. The performances of the solution methodologies are tested first on a real data set obtained from past blood donation activities of Turkish Red Crescent in Ankara, and then on a constructed data set based on GIS data of the European part of Istanbul. The Pareto set of optimum solutions is generated based on blood amounts and logistics costs, and finally a sensitivity analysis on some important design parameters is conducted.
), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. PrefaceThis book is the final result of a number of incidents that occurred to us while discussing location issues with colleagues at conferences. Frequently we attended presentations, in which the authors quoted the well-known references that helped to make the discipline what it is today. Upon further inquiry, though, it turned out that some of these colleagues had never actually read the original papers. We then discussed among ourselves which contributions could be credited with shaping the field. And, lo and behold, we found that we, too, had neglected to read some of the papers that form the foundation of our science. Whether it was laziness or other things that got in the way, it had become clear that something had to be done. Our first thought was to collect the original contributions (once we could agree on what they were) and reprint them. When discussing this possibility with a publisher, we immediately ran into a roadblock in the form of copyright. While this appeared to have stopped our enthusiastic effort dead in its tracks, we kept on collecting and reading what we considered original contributions.This went on until we met Camille Price, who suggested that, rather than reprinting the original contributions, we should invite some of the leaders in our field and ask them to describe the original contribution, explain and interpret it, and comment on the impact that it had to the field. This was, of course, an excellent idea, and the response by our colleagues to our pertinent requests was equally enthusiastic. What you hold in your hands is the result of this effort.In other words, the purpose of this book is to provide easy access to the main contributions to location theory. The book is organized as follows. The introductory chapter provides an overview of some of the many facets of location analysis. This is followed by contributions in the main three fields of inquiry: minisum, minimax, and covering problems. The next chapters are part of an ever-growing list of nonstandard location models: models including competitive components, those that locate undesirable facilities, those with probabilistic features, and those that allow interactions between facilities. The following chapters discuss solution techniques: after a discussion of exact and heuristic techniques, we devote an entire chapter to Weiszfeld's method, and another to Lagrangean techniques. The last chapters of this book deal with the spheres of influence that the facilities generate and that attract viii customers to them, an...
a b s t r a c tMost companies seek efficient rectification strategies to keep their warranty related costs under control. This study develops and investigates different repair strategies for one-and two-dimensional warranties with the objective of minimizing manufacturer's expected warranty cost. Static, improved and dynamic repair strategies are proposed and analyzed under different warranty structures. Numerical experimentation with representative cost functions indicates that performance of the policies depend on various factors such as product reliability, structure of the cost function and type of the warranty contract.
Location of hub facilities and the allocation decisions in transport networks endogenously affect both the flow intensities and the transportation costs. Since the introduction of the hub location problem to the operations research literature in mid1980s, many researchers investigated different ways of modelling the effects of hub facilities on the transportation costs. On the other hand, there has been very limited research on their effect on the flow intensities. This study proposes a new approach, inspired by the Bass diffusion model, to forecast the change in the demand patterns generated at different locations as a result of the placement of new hubs. This new model is used in the context of the uncapacitated single allocation p-hub median problem to investigate the effects of endogenous attraction, caused by the spatial interaction of present hubs, on future hub location decisions. Computational results indicate that the location and allocation decisions may be greatly affected when these forecasts are taken into account in the selection of future hub locations.
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