The effective distribution of critical relief in post disaster plays a crucial role in post-earthquake rescue operations. The location of distribution centers and vehicle routing in the available transportation network are two of the most challenging issues in emergency logistics. This paper...

The success of a logistics system may depend on the decisions of the depot locations and vehicle routings. The location routing problem (LRP) simultaneously tackles both location and routing decisions to minimize the total system cost. In this paper a multiple ant colony optimization algorithm...

This paper examines network design where OD demand is not known a priori, but is the subject of responses in household or user itinerary choices to infrastructure improvements. Using simple examples, we show that falsely assuming that household itineraries are not elastic can result in a lack in...

A robust desirability function approach to simultaneously optimizing multiple responses is proposed. The approach considers the uncertainty associated with the fitted response surface model. The uniqueness of the proposed method is that it takes account of all values in the confidence interval...

Early warning for sustainable utilization of regional water resources is an important control measure for regional water security management. To establish operable and quantitative forewarning model, in this paper, a new forewarning model for sustainable utilization of water resources based on...

Large corporations may be composed of multiple strategic business units (SBUs), each of which is responsible for its own profitability. Innovation performance management of SBUs boosts corporation business results. In the present work, SBU ranking based on innovation performance was addressed....

The perspective of competition in the high technology industry has changed impressively over the last two decades and the indicators which can be defined as the traditional indicators of business performance are insufficient today. So we have identified a new set of financial and non-financial...

The problems such as the global energy demand enhancing, greenhouse effect aggravating and climate externalizing and so on have worsen increasingly subsequent to the 21st century. Enhancing consumers¡¯ awareness of environmental protection spurred the global automobile manufacturers to produce...