Research Article

Incorporating a Bayesian Network into Two-Stage Stochastic Programming for Blood Bank Location-Inventory Problem in Case of Disasters

Table 2

Sets and indices.

SymbolDescription

KSet of donor points
ISet of blood bank candidates
HSet of hospitals
ASet of blood products (plasma, platelets, et al.)
BLSet of blood types (A, B, AB, O, et al.)
S1Set of disaster scenarios
SSet of whole scenarios (union of S1 and the scenario without a disaster)
kIndices to donor points, and k∈K
iIndices to blood bank candidates, and i∈I
hIndices to hospitals, and h∈H
aIndices to blood products, and a∈A
bIndices to blood types, and b∈BL
sIndices to scenarios, and s∈S