1.1.1. Petroleum fuels It is estimated that between 1.7 and 8.8 million tons of petroleum hydrocarbons are released into the marine environment each year, with a best estimate of 3.2 million tons per year. Although major oil spills, like the Exxon-Valdez spill of 1989 or last summer’s Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico, garner much media and citizen attention, you may be surprised to...

In this paper, we describe the Barrel Allocator, a scheduling tool developed for day-to-day allocation and management of airlift and tanker resources at the USAF Air Mobility Command (AMC). The system utilizes an incremental and con gurable constraint-based search framework to provide a range of automated and semi-automated scheduling capabilities, including generating an initial solution to th...

There is currently considerable effort to incorporate both diagnostic and therapeutic functions into a single nanoscale system for the more effective treatment of cancer. Nanoparticles have great potential to achieve such dual functions, particularly if more than one type of nanostructure can be incorporated in a nanoassembly, referred to in this review as a hybrid nanoparticle. Here we review ...

The problem of scheduling a fleet of marine vessels for crude oil tanker lightering is addressed. A novel continuous-time mathematical formulation is developed on the basis of the concept of event points proposed in a formulation for short-term scheduling of chemical processes (Ierapetritou, M. G.; Floudas, C. A. Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 1998, 37, 4341; 1998, 37, 4360. Ierapetritou, M. G.; Hené, T....

This article investigates whether time variation in the returns' co-movement of oil and Baltic Dirty Tanker Index can be linked to market uncertainty. We measure uncertainty using a battery different proxies considering both parametric non-parametric methods study its role from statistical economic perspectives. Using regression framework combined with regime switching analysis, we show that pr...

We report on a decision support system (DSS) that recommends solutions to a particular version of the vehicle routing problem occurring in the New Zealand dairy industry. FleetManager is a DSS developed for use by New Zealand milk tanker schedulers and is designed to aid them in creating or improving milk tanker routes using their experience and preferences. The DSS uses multiple, resizable, ov...