The ALIO-INFORMS 2010 focused on topics such as services, logistics and transportation, manufacturing, supply chain management, environment, natural resources, biotechnology, and healthcare, emphasizing the importance of the relationship between basic research and the practice of OR/MS. This time, the Conference also included a Cluster dedicated to Nonlinear Programming, co-chaired by Ernesto G...

A common hypothesis in multi-agent systems (MAS) literature is that decentralized MAS are better at coping with dynamic and large scale problems compared to centralized algorithms. Existing work investigates this hypothesis in a limited way, often with no support for further evaluation, slowing down the advance of more general conclusions. Investigating this hypothesis more systematically is ti...

Aiming at the problem of multimodal transport path planning under uncertain environments, this paper establishes a multi-objective fuzzy nonlinear programming model considering mixed-time window constraints by taking cost, time, and carbon emission as optimization objectives. To solve model, is de-fuzzified expectation value method chance-constrained method. Combining game theory with weighted ...

Freight transport in urban areas is of increasing interest and concern. Significant changes in patterns and intensity of freight movements are occurring as a result of technological and societal change and the growth in e-business, the environmental consequences of road based transport systems, and urban land use and transport systems management policies. One significant problem is the BrowneAl...

Health service management plays a crucial role in human life. Blood related operations are considered as one of the important components of the health services. This paper presents a bi-objective mixed integer linear programming model for dynamic location-allocation of blood facilities that integrates strategic and tactical decisions. Due to the epistemic uncertain nature of ...