In many practical distribution networks, managers face significant uncertainties in demand, local price of building facilities, transportation cost, and macro and microeconomic parameters. This paper addresses design of distribution networks in a supply chain system which optimizes the performance of distribution networks subject to required service level. This service level, which is consider...

The Solar Envelope is a three dimensional envelope on a site which ensures adjacent neighbors a specified minimum direct solar access time per day throughout the year. The solar envelope was developed as a tool to give buildings in an urban setting the mutual opportunity to employ passive and active solar design strategies. Parametric computeraided-design (CAD) environments significantly ease t...

Distributed generation (DG) has been widely used in distribution network to reduce the energy losses, improve voltage profile and system reliability, etc.  The location and capacity of DG units can influence on probability of protection mal-operation in distribution networks. In this paper, a novel model for DG planning is proposed to find the optimum DG location and sizing in radial distr...

With recent advances, the trend has shifted from battery-powered wireless sensor networks towards ones powered by ambient energy harvesters (WSN-HEAP). In such networks, operability of the node is dependent on the harvesting rate which is usually stochastic in nature. Therefore, it is necessary to devise routing protocols with energy management capabilities that consider variations in the avail...

A design problem of cross-docking distribution networks is addressed as a new research area in logistics management. This paper presents a new mathematical model for the location of cross-docking facilities and vehicle routing scheduling problems in distribution networks. For this purpose, a two-phase mixed-integer programming (MIP) is formulated. Then, a new heuristic-based simulated annealing...

Contents 1. Introduction 2. Air pollution and property values 3. Noise and property values 4. View and property values 5. Neighbourhood facilities and property values 6. Zoning regulation and property values 7. Hedonic price modelling of environmental attributes on urban values in Hong Kong 7.1. Air pollution control mechanism in Hong Kong 7.2. Noise pollution control mechanism in Hong Kong 7.3...

Retailers often co-locate spatially to draw consumers, even though it increases price competition. The paper develops a structural model of entry and location choice that isolates the agglomeration benefit of co-location, after controlling for pure differentiation rationales for colocation such as (1) high demand and/or low cost at the location; (2) zoning restrictions and (3) format differenti...

The contribution of this paper is twofold. First we investigate the use of the confusion matrices in order to get some insight to better define perceptual zoning for character recognition. The features considered in this work are based on concavities/convexities deficiencies, which are obtained by labelling the background pixels of the input image. Four different perceptual zoning (symmetrical ...