High amounts of waste paper are disposed of every year in Iran posing the health hazard and environmental damages instead of being recovered. Collection, recovery and proper disposal of waste paper without damaging the environment need to design an efficient closed-loop supply chain network. The main objective of this paper is introducing a bi-objective, multi-echelon, multi-product and single-...

In a global economy, an efficient supply chain as a main core competency empowers enterprises to provide products or services at the right time in the right quantity, at a low cost. This paper is to plan a single product, multi-echelon, multi-period closed loop supply chain for high-tech products (which have continuous price decrease). Ultimately, considering components rated to procurement, pr...

Logistics Network Design includes network configuration decisions having long-standing influences on other tactical and operational decisions. Recently, regarding environmental issues and customer awareness and global warming closed-loop supply chain network design is taken into consideration. The proposed network for the integrated forward and reverse logistics is developed by formulating a cy...

In this paper, we propose a global optimal fuzzy tracking controller, implemented by fuzzily blending the individual local fuzzy tracking laws, for continuous and discrete-time fuzzy systems with the aim of solving, respectively, the continuous and discrete-time quadratic tracking problems with moving or model-following targets under finite or infinite horizon (time). The differential or recurs...

although lcl filters are used widely in the grid connected inverters to reduce high-orderharmonics, such a system increases system order and therefore sustainable design of closed-loopcontroller system will be complicated. recently, the single-loop control strategy has beensuggested for l or lc filter based grid-connected inverters. however, the use of single-loopcontrol directly in lcl filter-...

The feedback synthesis of linear systems satisfying certain exponential bounds on their transient behavior is studied. We present sufficient conditions ensuring that there exists a state feedback matrix such that the closed loop system satisfies a desired exponential growth bound. Special interest is directed to the case of generating contraction semigroups, which under certain conditions can b...

This paper addresses conditions for characterizing static output feedback controllers including delays for some proper transfer functions. The interest of such study is in controlling systems which can not be stabilized by the classical, nondelayed static output feedback, and its difficulty lies in computing delay intervals guaranteeing closed-loop stability, since for the same matrix gain, sta...

Topological separation is investigated in the case of an uncertain time-invariant matrix interconnected with an implicit linear transformation. A quadratic separator independent of the uncertainty is shown to prove losslessly the closed-loop well-posedness. Several applications for descriptor systems are then given. First, some known results for stability and pole location are demonstrated in a...