Locational analysis for regionalization of Turkish Red Crescent blood services

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 692-704

  Şahin, Güvenç ^a   Süral, Haldun ^b   Meral, Sedef ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Hierarchical location problem; Location allocation problem; pq median problem; Regional blood centers

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; DECISION MAKING; EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; HEALTH CARE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; REGIONAL PLANNING;

HIERARCHICAL LOCATION PROBLEM; LOCATION-ALLOCATION PROBLEM; PQ-MEDIAN PROBLEM; REGIONAL BLOOD CENTERS;

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

EID: 33748289951     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cor.2005.03.020     Document Type: Article

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