Long-standing federal drug-control policy aims to reduce the flow of narcotics into USA, in part by intercepting cocaine shipments en route from South American production regions North consumer markets. Drug interdiction efforts operate over a large geographic area, containing complex drug trafficking networks dynamic environment. The extant models operations research and location science liter...

Amaç: Geleneksel Çok Kriterli Karar Verme (ÇKKV) yöntemleri yakın gelecekte karşılaşılabilecek sorunlara çözüm verememektedir. Problemi baştan yeni ağırlıklar atayarak çözmek yorucu ve zor olacağından, meydana gelebilecek ihtimaller için Katmanlı (KÇKKV) Yöntemi geliştirilmiştir. Yöntem: Bu makalede, KÇÇKV yönteminin işleyişi anlatılmış geleneksel ÇKKV yöntemlerinden olan TOPSIS yöntemi ile kar...

Data Centers (DCs) are complex organizational and technical infrastructures that assure the performance and reliability of modern information and communication systems. The high installation and operations costs of DCs and the stringent requirements regarding reliability and safety require a close attention to the location of this type of facility. This paper proposes a Multi-Criteria Decision ...

We have implemented and tested a PDA-based system that gives a shopper directions through a shopping mall on the basis of (a) the types of products that the shopper has expressed an interest in, (b) the shopper’s current location, and (c) the purchases that the shopper has made so far. The system uses decision-theoretic planning to compute a policy that optimizes the expected utility of a shopp...

This paper investigates the impact of two Wal-Mart buy-American initiatives implemented in 1989 and abolished in 1992. Utilizing the data of a hat firm facing the choice of domestic production or losing all Wal-Mart sales, we formulated a model of the firm location decision given a subsidy. From this model, we were able to determine the necessary subsidy amount to induce a firm to produce domes...