Table 1 Summary of different existing VSC network designs in previous literature related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

From: An integrated blockchain-enabled multi-channel vaccine supply chain network under hybrid uncertainties

Reference	Type of Model	Blockchain Technology	Priority	Product		Period		Solution Method	Objective functions	Uncertainty
Reference	Type of Model	Blockchain Technology	Priority	Single	Multi	Single	Multi	Solution Method	Objective functions	Robust	Fuzzy	Stochastic	Parameter
Dai et al. ⁴⁶	MILP			✔			✔	Heuristic	Cost
Habibi et al. ²¹	MILP				✔		✔	Meta-heuristic	Cost
Abbasi et al. ¹⁹	MIP				✔		✔	Heuristic	Cost and environmental effect
Fadaki et al. ⁴⁷	MILP				✔		✔	Exact	Risk
Georgiadis & Georgiadis ⁴⁸	MILP				✔			Exact	Cost
Valizadeh et al. ²³	MILP			✔		✔		Hybrid algorithm	Time, cost, and risk			✔	Demand
Chen et al. ⁵	MILP			✔		✔		Exact	Death
Shiri & Ahmadi zar ³⁰	MILP		✔	✔			✔	Exact	Cost			✔	Demand
Kochakkashani et al. ³³	MILP				✔		✔	Exact	Cost			✔	Intrinsic part of the problem
Goodarzian et al. ²⁵	MINLP			✔			✔	Meta-heuristic based on IoT	Cost, time, and environmental effects			✔	Demand and supply
Tang et al. ⁴⁹	MILP						✔	Exact and meta-heuristic	Cost and equity
Gilani and Sahebi ³⁴	MIP				✔	✔		Exact	Cost, social, and environmental effects	✔			Vaccine accessibility
Khodaee et al. ⁵⁰	MIP			✔		✔		Exact	Cost
Rahman et al. ²²	MILP				✔		✔	Hybrid meta-heuristic	Cost and equity
Alizadeh et al. ²⁰	MIP			✔			✔	Exact	Cost and social effects
Tavana et al. ⁶	MILP				✔		✔	Exact	Cost
Abbasi et al. ¹	MILP			✔			✔	Exact	Cost and risk
Jahani et al. ⁵¹	NLP				✔		✔	Meta-heuristic	Cost and queue length
Bani et al. ²⁹	MILP				✔		✔	Exact	Cost and environmental effect	✔			Tendency rate of vaccination
Wang et al. ³²	MILP				✔		✔	Exact	Cost and social effect	✔			Demand and supply
Goentzel et al. ²⁶	MIP			✔		✔		Exact	C immunization coverage
Sazvar et al. ²⁷	MIP			✔				Exact	Cost and access to vaccine
Dastgoshade et al. ⁵²	MIP			✔		✔		Exact	Cost, social, and equity			✔	Demand and supply
Mohammadi et al. ²⁸	MINLP				✔	✔		Exact	Cost and equity	✔			Transmission, death, contacts
Işık and Yildiz ⁵³	MILP				✔		✔	Exact	Cost	✔			Demand, capacities, supply
Moadab et al. ³¹	MILP							Exact	Cost, social, and environmental effects			✔	Demand
Taghipour et al. ³⁷	MIP			✔		✔		Exact	Cost and reliability				Demand
Current paper	MILP	✔	✔		✔		✔	Exact (Multistage)	Cost		✔	✔	Supply, quality, and price

NLP Non-Linear Programming, MINLP Mix Integer Non-Linear Programming.

Back to article page

Table 1 Summary of different existing VSC network designs in previous literature related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Search

Quick links