Development a Heuristic Method to Locate and Allocate the Medical Centers to Minimize the Earthquake Relief Operation Time.

Background: Location-allocation is a combinatorial optimization problem, and is defined as Non deterministic Polynomial Hard (NP) hard optimization. Therefore, solution of such a problem should be shifted from exact to heuristic or Meta heuristic due to the complexity of the problem. Locating medica...

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Published in:Iranian Journal of Public Health Vol. 42; no. 1; pp. 63 - 72
Main Authors: Aghamohammadi, Hossein, Saadi Mesgari, Mohammad, Molaei, Damoon, Aghamohammadi, Hasan
Format: algorithm case study equations & formulas pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Tehran University of Medical Sciences Jan2013
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