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The Future of Retail Operations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Retailing consists of all the activities associated with the selling of goods to the final consumer. In this article, we review the research on retail operations published in Manufacturing & Service Operations Research (M&SOM) since 1999. We then
Caro, Felipe   +2 more
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OR/MS research perspectives in disaster operations management: a literature review

open access: yesRevista Facultad de Ingeniería Universidad de Antioquia, 2019
The unpredictability of natural disasters makes handling their impacts on the population, the environment and the economic resources a challenging decision-making process that must be wisely performed in a very short period of time.
Henry Lamos Díaz   +2 more
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Reducing Ambulance Diversion at Hospital and Regional Levels: Systemic Review of Insights from Simulation Models

open access: yesWestern Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2013
Introduction: Optimal solutions for reducing diversion without worsening emergency department (ED) crowding are unclear. We performed a systematic review of published simulation studies to identify: 1) the tradeoff between ambulance diversion and ED wait
M Kit Delgado   +5 more
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Operations research in passenger railway transportation [PDF]

open access: yes
In this paper, we give an overview of state-of-the-art OperationsResearch models and techniques used in passenger railwaytransportation. For each planning phase (strategic, tactical andoperational), we describe the planning problems arising there ...
Huisman, D.   +3 more
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Uncertainty Modeling and Stability Assessment of Minimum Spanning Trees in Network Design

open access: yesMathematics
The Minimum Spanning Tree (MST) problem in networks focuses on finding efficient routes, with applications in transportation, logistics, telecommunications, and more. However, catastrophes can make these networks uncertain, requiring robust computational
Ahmad Hosseini
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Railway timetabling from an operations research [PDF]

open access: yes
In this paper we describe Operations Research (OR) models andtechniques that can be used for determining (cyclic) railwaytimetables. We discuss the two aspects of railway timetabling: ($i$)the determination of arrival and departure times of the trains ...
Huisman, D., Kroon, L.G., Maroti, G.
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Operations Research - Contemporary Role in Managerial Decision Making [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
As the global environment turns out to be furiously focused, Operations Research has picked up criticalness in applications like world-class Manufacturing systems (WCM), Lean generation, and Six-sigma quality administration, Bench marking, Just-in-time ...
Ahmad, M. (Mobin)
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