This study investigates the viability of a ``courier friendly" crowd-shipping (CS) model to carry out express package deliveries in an urban area. Imposing almost no managerial control over the occasional couriers (OC), to maximize their willingness to participate, the envisioned model suggests...

This paper presents a new approach to solving the Fault Diagnosis Problem with Lazy Spread (FDPL) that arises in many fault-tolerant real-world systems with few opportunities for maintenance during their operations and significant failure interactions between the subsystems/components. As...