Global distribution of COVID-19 vaccines is one of the world's most challenging logistics tasks. A timely mass vaccination during a pandemic is a matter of life and death. This study proposes a decision support system (DSS) that integrates GIS, analytics, and simulation methods to help develop a...

Australia has been at the forefront of the adoption of outsourcing as a means for delivering IT services, but the success of IT outsourcing in Australia has been mixed. With two hundred and forty one responses from the top 1000 IT users in the country, the survey reported in this paper is one of...

Quality of life studies typically focus either on aggregate measures of QOL variables using secondary data sources for aggregated spatial units or on primary data collected through sample surveys whereby individuals provide subjective assessments of QOL dimensions. This paper uses sample survey...

The application of GIS-based techniques to analyse incident data such as crime has received a relatively large amount of research interest, the analysis of disaggregate fire incident data, in comparison has been the focus of much less attention. This paper, for the first time applies a Bayesian...

Purpose - This study integrates economic, environmental, and social dimensions into the distribution network for India's Public Distribution System (PDS). It aims to identify multi-modal strategies that balance cost efficiency, lower emissions, and community well-being....

The increased frequency of purchases and growing distances between the final distribution points of the perishable products and consumers are contributing to multiple handling, high intermediation, and a greater concentration of outlets selling perishables goods. These in turn have increased...

Timely allocation and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines on a large scale is a highly complex, dynamic, and context-specific task. The focus of this research on optimizing vaccine allocation is on the downstream part of a COVID-19 vaccine supply chain. Previous research on vaccine supply chains...