We consider a third party logistics service provider (LSP), who faces the problem of distributing different products from suppliers to consumers having no control on supply and demand. In a third party set-up, the operations of transport and storage are run as a black box for a fixed price. Thus...

The growth of world population, limitation of resources, economic problems, and environmental issues force engineers to develop increasingly efficient solutions for logistic systems. Pure optimization for efficiency, however, has often led to technical solutions that are vulnerable to variations...

The design of the state observer for a kind of uncertain symmetric circulant composite systems based on regional pole assignment is studied. The "decentralized observer gain matrices" have been obtained by taking use of the special structure of the system. The central observer gain matrix for...