Computers and Operations Research/European Journal of Operational Research/European Journal of Operational Research.

This article presents an abstract of the article "Analytical Evaluation of the Characteristic Curve of a Blood Bank and Its Usefulness in Blood Banking," published in the journal "Computers and Operations Research." According to the article blood that is not used fairly quickly becomes outdated and wasted, so it is important to know how much a blood bank should keep in inventory. The author analyzes data from a Scottish teaching hospital in this blood bank model, which consists of appropriately named renewal processes.