Introduction -- Principles and Background -- Discrete Facility Location Problems -- Decision Making under Uncertainty: Ingredients for Modeling -- Optimization under Uncertainty -- Modeling Paradigms and Solution Techniques -- Robust Facility Location -- Stochastic Facility Location -- Facility...

We consider an optimal appointment scheduling problem for a single-server healthcare delivery system with random durations, focusing on the tradeoff between overtime work and patient delays which are measured under conditional value-at-risk (CVaR). To address the distributional ambiguity, we...

We consider an expansion planning problem for Waste-to-Energy (WtE) systems facing uncertainty in future waste supplies. The WtE expansion plans are regarded as strategic, long term decisions, while the waste distribution and treatment are medium to short term operational decisions which can...

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, severe economic damage and product shortages caused by demand surges and supply disruptions have prompted interests in strategies and tools for building resilient supply chains. The recent geopolitical conflicts as well as increased frequency of natural...

Development of strategic HRM in China: an overview -- Review method and theoretical framework for evaluation -- National economic growth and strategic HRM -- Enterprise reform and strategic HRM -- Individual creativity, firm innovation and HRM -- Strategic HRM, labor relations and human rights...