Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic and humanitarian challenges such as war conflict, climate changes, economic crises bring unexpected challenges, food insecurity. Especially for developing countries, this is a double crisis, poverty pandemic. This situation needs an alternative network (AFN), which can improve the local sources to fulfill demand. hubs’ (LFHs) development AFN that considers produce...

provides an excellent opportunity to discuss recent and important issues in combinatorial optimization and its applications. The group, which has about 500 members, is open to everybody interested in the field, either in theoretical aspects or in business, industry or public administration applications. During the first ten years, Catherine Roucairol (Université de Ver-sailles, France) coordina...

Recent natural disasters such as the earthquake in Haiti, Hurricane Katrina in the United States, tsunami in the Indian Ocean, the earthquake in Pakistan, and numerous humanitarian challenges arising from such conflicts as that in Sudan have exposed the shortcomings in planning for disasters. In addition to the natural disasters, the homeland security issues related to domestic as well as inter...

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Restructuring the recent developments in the power system and problems arising from construction as well as the maintenance of large power plants lead to increase in using the Distributed Generation (DG) resources. DG units due to its specifications, technology and location network connectivity can improve system and load point reliability indices. In this paper, the allocation and sizing of di...

In this study, a cross-docking system is designed at strategic and tactical levels. For making the strategic decisions, a multi-objective nonlinear location allocation model for cross-docks is presented based on a distri-bution location allocation model by Andreas Klose and Andreas Drexl. The model is further developed to in-clude the whole supply chain members and the objective functions are w...

The increasing number of natural disasters in the last decade necessitates the increase in capacity and agility while delivering humanitarian relief. A common logistics strategy used by humanitarian organizations to respond this need is the establishment of pre-positioning warehouse networks. In the pre-positioning strategy, critical relief inventories are located near the regions at which they...

School of science, Shenyang University of Technology, Shenyang 110870, China E-mail: [email protected] We mainly studied order allocation of logistics service supply chain under the background of big data. According to the characteristic of prediction of big data, designed the two-phase solution of “prediction of big data stage” and “model optimization stage” in logistics service supply chain . ...