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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Main Authors: Hasan Aghamohammadi, Damoon Molaei, Mohammad Saadi Mesgari, Hossein Aghamohammadi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2013-01-01
Series:Iranian Journal of Public Health
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Online Access:http://ijph.tums.ac.ir/index.php/IJPH/article/view/2590/2035