land use planning is the process of allocating different land uses and activities to the special units of land. so we face with two problems of assigning kind of activity and location of it. by considering the role of industries in development, employment and environment, we consider industrial and especially intensive energy industries planning as a multi objective optimization problem. in thi...

discrete facility location,   distribution center,   logistics,   inventory policy,   queueing theory,   markov processes, the distribution center location problem is a crucial question for logistics decision makers. the optimization of these decisions needs careful attention to the fixed facility costs, inventory costs, transportation costs and customer responsiveness. in this paper we study t...

This paper considers the Dynamic Multi-Period Vehicle Routing Problem which deals with the distribution of orders from a depot to a set of customers over a multi-period time horizon. Customer orders and their feasible service periods are dynamically revealed over time. The objectives are to minimize total travel costs and customer waiting, and to balance the daily workload over the planning hor...

A comprehensive and integrated study of any supply chain (SC) environment is a vital requirement that can create various advantages for the SC owners. This consideration causes productive managing of the SC through its whole wide components from upstream suppliers to downstream retailers and customers.  On this issue, despite many valuable studies reported in the current literature, considerabl...

In this paper, a multi-period assignment problem is studied that arises as part of a weekly planning problem at mail processing and distribution centers. These facilities contain a wide variety of automation equipment that is used to cancel, sort, and sequence the mail. The input to the problem is an equipment schedule that indicates the number of machines required for each job or operation dur...

This paper looks at a Multi-Period Renewal equipment problem (MPR). It is inspired by a specific real-life situation where a set of hardware items is to be managed and their replacement dates determined, given a budget over a time horizon comprising a set of periods. The particular characteristic of this problem is the possibility of carrying forward any unused budget from one period to the nex...