Supply chain network operations management of a blood banking system with cost and risk minimization

Computational Management Science

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 205-231

  Nagurney, Anna ^a   Masoumi, Amir H ^a   Yu, Min ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood banking; Cost minimization; Generalized networks; Healthcare; Medical waste; Multicriteria decision making; Network optimization; Perishable products; Risk minimization; Supply chains; Variational inequalities

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860624160     PISSN: 1619697X     EISSN: 16196988     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10287-011-0133-z     Document Type: Article

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