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Optimum Location of Field Hospitals for COVID-19: A Nonlinear Binary Metaheuristic Algorithm

Said Ali Hassan¹, Khalid Alnowibet², Prachi Agrawal³, Ali Wagdy Mohamed^4,5,*

1 Department of Operations Research and Decision Support, Faculty of Computers and Artificial Intelligence, Cairo University, Giza, 12613, Egypt
2 College of Science, Department of Statistics and Operations Research, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
3 Department of Mathematics and Scientific Computing, National Institute of Technology Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh, 177005, India
4 Department of Operations Research, Faculty of Graduate Studies for Statistical Research, Cairo University, Giza, 12613, Egypt
5 Wireless Intelligent Networks Center (WINC), School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nile University, Giza, Egypt

* Corresponding Author: Ali Wagdy Mohamed. Email: