This paper studies a location–routing–inventory problem in a multi-period closed-loop supply chain with multiple suppliers, producers, distribution centers, customers, collection centers, recovery, and recycling centers. In this supply chain, centers are multiple levels, a price increase factor is considered for operational costs at centers, inventory and shortage (including lost sales and back...

one of methods of improvement of the material flow is cross docking that in is considered as a good method to reduce inventory and improve customer satisfaction. too, the vehicle routing problem is one of the important problems in distribution management and its goal is to find paths for delivering various cargos. therefore, this study was conducted in order to vehicle routing problem with cros...

We propose an integrated location management and location-aided routing system which organizes the Mobile Ad-hoc Network (MANET) into a two-level hierarchy with the help of Voronoi diagrams. The location information of mobile nodes in a Voronoi zone is summarized using Bloom Filters and distributed among the location servers in the zones. The integrated system has the property that the destinat...

Due to the utilization of location information, geographic ad hoc routing presents superiority in scalability compared with traditional topology-based routing in mobile ad hoc networks. However, the consequent solicitation for location presence incurs severe concerns of location privacy, which has not been properly studied. In this paper, we attempt to preserve location privacy based on the ide...

Abstract Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks are currently experiencing a second youth in terms of research interest as well providing benefits to our society. Clearly, this has been fostered by the wide range applications that have become actually feasible thanks pervasive and increasing presence smartphones, drones, sensors other small devices with communication sensing capability. Aiming deploy solutions...

The combined operation of distribution and inventory control achieved through a vendor-managed inventory strategy creates a synergetic interaction which benefits supplier and customers. Inventory-Routing Problems (IRPs) arise when inventory and routing decisions must be taken simultaneously, which yields a difficult combinatorial optimization problem. While most IRP research deals with a single...