Said Ali Hassan1, Khalid Alnowibet2, Prachi Agrawal3, Ali Wagdy Mohamed4,5,*
CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.68, No.1, pp. 1183-1202, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.015514
- 22 March 2021
Abstract Determining the optimum location of facilities is critical in many fields, particularly in healthcare. This study proposes the application of a suitable location model for field hospitals during the novel coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. The used model is the most appropriate among the three most common location models utilized to solve healthcare problems (the set covering model, the maximal covering model, and the P-median model). The proposed nonlinear binary constrained model is a slight modification of the maximal covering model with a set of nonlinear constraints. The model is used to determine the optimum location More >