This paper addresses the problem of scheduling ambulance crews in order to maximize the coverage throughout a planning horizon. The problem includes the subproblem of locating ambulances to maximize expected coverage with probabilistic response times, for which a tabu search algorithm is...

Cloud manufacturing, one of the trends subsumed under Industry 4.0, influences industrial production settings as it transforms resource utilization into a shared on-demand service. Central to cloud manufacturing is the Production as a Service (PaaS) paradigm, which allows intermediaries to...

The variety and complexity of the transportation field is reflected by the richness of research areas, models, methods, and software. The ten chapters of Fleet Management and Logistics describe some of the most recent operations-research advances in the field of transportation and logistics. The...