"This cutting-edge book covers emerging, evolutionary and nature inspired optimization techniques in the field of advanced manufacturing. The complexity of real life advanced manufacturing problems often cannot be solved by traditional engineering or computational methods. Hence, in recent years...

Chapter 1: Q-Learning Approach to Mitigate Bacterial Contamination in Food Supply Chain -- Chapter 2: Optimization of Network Planning in a Real-Life Vehicle Logistics Distribution System -- Chapter 3: Efficient Supplier Selection in e-Procurement Reverse Auction using Graph Based Model --...

Supply chain risk propagation is a cascading effect of risks on global supply chain networks. The paper attempts to measure the behaviour of risks following the assessment of supply chain risk propagation. Bayesian network theory is used to analyse the multi-echelon network faced with...

In recent years, the concept of carpooling, along with the use of public transport for office commute, has been increasing in popularity due to the environmental benefits. In this study, we define Office Bus Routing Problem (OBRP) as a variant of the School Bus Routing Problem (SBRP) in which we...