TY - JOUR ID - 72433 TI - Hotel Location Problem Using Erlang Queuing Model under Uncertainty (RESEARCH NOTE) JO - International Journal of Engineering JA - IJE LA - en SN - 1025-2495 AU - Mohammadzade, Hadi AU - Khalili, Saeed AD - Industrial Eng., Yazd University Y1 - 2014 PY - 2014 VL - 27 IS - 12 SP - 1879 EP - 1887 KW - Hotel location KW - queueing theory KW - fuzzy queueing models KW - Hotel profit function KW - fuzzy ranking technique DO - N2 - Determining and selecting an appropriate location to construct a hotel is one of the most challenging concerns which hotel industry investors are facing with. In this study we attempt to find a suitable response to this research/application need by a mathematical model using the queueing theory and the fuzzy logic. Therefore hotel, the reception system and travelers accommodations are formulated by appropriate queueing models. Considering the fact that the arrival rate for hotel and the amount of time spent in hotel is uncertain thus a profit function is defined using the fuzzy logic and the fuzzy queueing models. Using the values of this function, candidate locations for constructing a hotel are compared and the one with maximum profit for the investors is selected. Due to using fuzzy parameters in the profit function, the amounts of profit obtained for different locations are in the form of fuzzy numbers, thus we use fuzzy ranking techniques to prioritize the candidate locations for constructing the hotel. UR - https://www.ije.ir/article_72433.html L1 - https://www.ije.ir/article_72433_4ba8ac269a8d271b3f2227e80d12bb34.pdf ER -