Hospitals are the most complex types of buildings in which a wide range of facilities and services are involved that make the design of facility layout more complex. There has been little research on facility layout design of hospitals. The objective of hospital facility layout design is to...

Inventory management is considered to be an important field in supply chain management. Inventory is one of the factors responsible for minimizing the supply chain cost. Through efficient and effective management of inventory, services provided to the customers get enhanced. In this paper, an...

In order to group the observations of a data set into a given number of clusters, an ‘optimal’ subset out of a greater number of explanatory variables is to be selected. The problem is approached by maximizing a quality measure under certain restrictions that are supposed to keep the subset...