This paper considers a time dependent(the travel time is not constant throughout the day) pollution routing problem (TDPRP), which aids the decision makers in minimizing travel time, toll cost and emitted pollution cost.  In complexity of urban areas most of the time one point is accessible from another with more than one edge. In contrast to previous TDPRP models, which are designed with only ...

Several studies have been conducted to develop more accurate and precise indices for hydrocarbons source apportionment. The present study, however, develops a new multi-metric index for hydrocarbons source apportionment. It measures Poly Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) concentration at six stations with well known petrogenic origin, calculating Phe/An, Flu/Py, Chr/BaA, BaA/Chr, An/(An+Ph), Flu/(Fl...

Nowadays, the necessity of accurate quantitative decision support methods is becoming a critical subject for managers as rivalry between organizations caused a more fragile economic environment and brand reputation is becoming more important. Furthermore, dealing with incidents after they happened is not accepted by customers anymore. Managers require powerful decision making tools to support t...

Sima Kalhor was born in Qom, Iran in1988. He received his B.Sc. in applied Chemistry (2012) from Islamic Azad University Qom and M.Sc. in Organic Chemistry (2014) at Islamic Azad University Qom, Iran. Also, she is currently working towards her Ph.D. student in Organic Chemistry (2016) under the supervision of Prof. Mohammad Ali Zolfigol. Her research interest is the synthesis, characterization ...

The aim of this paper is to introduce $n$-variables mappings which are cubic in each variable and to apply a fixed point theorem for the Hyers-Ulam stability of such mapping in non-Archimedean normed spaces. Moreover, a few corollaries corresponding to some known stability and hyperstability outcomes are presented.

The polybenzene units BTX 48, X=A (armchair) and X=Z (zig-zag) dimerize forming “eclipsed” isomers, the oligomers of which form structures of five-fold symmetry, called multi-tori. Multi-tori can be designed by appropriate map operations. The genus of multi-tori was calculated from the number of tetrapodal units they consist. A description, in terms of Omega polynomial, of the two linearly peri...

multi agent markov decision processes (mmdps), as the generalization of markov decision processes to the multi agent case, have long been used for modeling multi agent system and are used as a suitable framework for multi agent reinforcement learning. in this paper, a generalized learning automata based algorithm for finding optimal policies in mmdp is proposed. in the proposed algorithm, mmdp ...

The supply chain network design (SCND) implicates decision-making at a strategic level and makes it possible to create an effective and helpful context for managing. The aim of the network is to minimize the total cost so that customer's demands should be met. Preventive maintenance is pre-determined work performed to a schedule with the aim of preventing the wear and tear or sudden failure of ...

in the recent decade, special attention is paid to reverse logistic due to economic benefits of recovery and recycling of used products as well as environmental legislation and social concerns. on the other hand، many researches claim that separately and sequential planning of forward and reverse logistic causes sub-optimality. effective transport activities are also one of the most important c...

This paper presents a multi-objective mixed-integer nonlinear programming model to design a group layout of a cellular manufacturing system in a dynamic environment, in which the number of cells to be formed is variable. Cell formation (CF) and group layout (GL) are concurrently made in a dynamic environment by the integrated model, which incorporates with an extensive coverage of important ...