A multi-objective healthcare inventory routing problem; a fuzzy possibilistic approach

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review

Volumn 80, Issue , 2015, Pages 74-94

  Niakan, Farzad ^a   Rahimi, Mohammad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

Fuzzy mathematical programming; Fuzzy multi objective optimization; Healthcare; Inventory routing problem; Possibilistic programming

Indexed keywords

DEMAND ANALYSIS; DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM; FORECASTING METHOD; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; HEALTH CARE; INVENTORY; MULTIOBJECTIVE PROGRAMMING; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 84930958706     PISSN: 13665545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tre.2015.04.010     Document Type: Article

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