A country-level stock and flow model for cement, an important construction material, was developed based on a material flow analysis framework. Using this model, the contemporary cement cycle of the United States was constructed by analyzing production, import, and export data for different...

The procurement of transportation services via large-scale combinatorial auctions involves a couple of complex decisions whose outcome highly influences the performance of the tender process. This paper examines the shipper's task of selecting a subset of the submitted bids which efficiently...

The use of goal programming in various real-world areas - including resource allocation,engineering, agriculture and other applications - has increased a lot in the past few years.The aim of this dissertation is to investigate goal programming approaches in determiningprices. Various aspects of...