Title: The combined study of improved fuzzy optimisation techniques with the analysis of the upgraded facility location centre for the Covid-19 vaccine by fuzzy clustering algorithms

Authors: Rakesh Kumar; Gaurav Dhiman; Varun Joshi; Rutvij H. Jhaveri; Akash Kumar Bhoi

Addresses: Department of Mathematics, School of Chemical Engineering and Physical Sciences, Lovely Professional University, Punjab, 144001, India ' Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Lebanese American University, Byblos, Lebanon; Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University Centre for Research and Development, Chandigarh University, Gharuan, 140413, Mohali, India; Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Graphic Era Deemed to be University, Dehradun, 248002, India; Division of Research and Development, Lovely Professional University, India; Chitkara University Institute of Engineering and Technology, Chitkara University, Punjab, India; Department of Computer Science, Government Bikram College of Commerce, Patiala, India ' Department of Mathematics, School of Chemical Engineering and Physical Sciences, Lovely Professional University, Punjab, 144001, India ' Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Pandit Deendayal Energy University, Gandhinagar, 382007, India ' KIET Group of Institutions, Delhi-NCR, Ghaziabad, 201206, India; Directorate of Research, Sikkim Manipal University, Gangtok, 737102, Sikkim, India

Abstract: With the latest production of vaccines at the conclusion of clinical trials in India, one of the next steps is to administer this vaccine to the consumer. The supply must be specifically positioned to ensure optimal distribution, and it also optimises the transportation cost. The significant concern of the location of facilities is a major logistic extent of decision-making for the vaccine distribution. How the material is passed to customers is one of the vital characteristics of a conversion process (manufacturing system). This fact involves deciding where the building or facility should be located. In this paper, the fuzzy cluster technology provides such optimised locations. Subsequently the optimal positions have been determined, the goal is to find the lowest transportation cost by FLLP. We report on experimental studies by taking artificial data from the current warehouse to prove feasibility and showing that the proposed solution is applicable.

Keywords: Covid-19; facility location problem; optimisation; fuzzy clustering; fuzzy linear programming problem.

DOI: 10.1504/IJNT.2023.131121

International Journal of Nanotechnology, 2023 Vol.20 No.1/2/3/4, pp.323 - 345

Received: 14 Mar 2021
Accepted: 27 Aug 2021
Published online: 31 May 2023 *