To fully maximise profitability, strategies regarding reverse logistics must be analysed and implemented. This study researches several such logistics constructs such as resource commitment, production route efficiency and others. A thorough survey instrument was developed and mailed in effort...

This paper presents a state transition based formal framework for a new search method, called Evolutionary Ruin and Stochastic Recreate, which tries to learn and adapt to the changing environments during the search process. It improves the performance of the original Ruin and Recreate principle...