The development of effective decision support tools that can be adopted in the transportation industry is vital in the world we live in today, since it can lead to substantial cost reduction and efficient resource consumption. Solving the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) and its related variants is at the heart of scientific research for optimizing logistic planning. One important variant of the V...

In this article, an optimization-based framework is proposed for integrated production and distribution planning of industrial gas supply chains. The main goal to minimize the overall cost, whic...

in this study, a bi-objective model for integrated planning of production-distribution in a multi-level supply chain network with multiple product types and multi time periods is presented. the supply chain network including manufacturers, distribution centers, retailers and final customers is proposed. the proposed model minimizes the total supply chain costs and transforming time of products ...

This paper discusses the issue of integrating production planning and preventive maintenance in manufacturing production systems. In particular, it tackles the problem of integrating production and preventive maintenance in a system composed of parallel failure-prone production lines. It is assumed that when a production line fails, a minimal repair is carried out to restore it to an ‘as-bad-as...

The traditional production planning model based upon the famous linear programming formulation has been well documented. However, the integration of preventive maintenance planning in the same model is a recent problem. This paper proposes an extended linear programming model as a hybrid approach for computing the optimum production plan with minimum total cost. The dual objective problem of pr...

The increased deployment of distributed generation calls for the coordination and interaction between transmission distribution levels. This requirement is particularly relevant planning purposes when renewable-based involved. Unfortunately, in current industry practice, network planners solve their problems independent each other, thereby leading to suboptimal solutions. Within this context, p...

INTRODUCTION Difficulties have been reported in the patient distribution during Mass Casualty Incidents. In this study we analysed the regional patient distribution protocol (PDP) and the actual patient distribution after the 2009 Turkish Airlines crash near Amsterdam. METHODS Analysis of the patient distribution of 126 surviving casualties of the crash by collecting data on medical treatment...

Vascular injury after balloon angioplasty results in the rapid activation of platelets leading to the release of growth factors and vasoactive substances. In addition, up-regulation of tissue factor (TF) and an increased production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) have been detected at sites of vascular injury. We investigated whether platelet-derived products (PDP) released from activated huma...

During the last two decades, integrated production-distribution problems have attracted a great deal of attention in operations research literature. Within short period, large number papers been published and field has expanded dramatically. The purpose this paper is to provide comprehensive review existing literature by classifying models into several different categories based on multiple cha...

Application service provider (ASP) An organization that hosts software applications and provides information services for other organizations. Business intelligence software A category of software that enhances the ability of an organization’s decision makers to access and analyze enterprise information. Customer relationship management (CRM) systems An integrated information system that suppor...