The increasing globalisation of the world economy is having a profound impact on logistics. Emerging economies are experiencing rapid developments that affect their warehousing facilities. The purpose of this study is to explore the strategic roles that warehousing plays and the changes therein....

There is an increasing availability of unstructured textual data in the depositories of big databases that are constantly produced and updated. Such unstructured data, such as status updates on social media, play the role of narrative bits - narbs - in creating specific stories about an...

In this paper, the two innovative non-parametric models, the Luenberger productivity model and the Luenberger-Hicks-Moorsteen productivity indicator, are used to estimate the productivity of UK airports. The airports are ranked according to their total productivity over ten years showing that...

In this paper, Glowworm swarm optimisation (GSO) is proposed to solve nonlinear fixed charge transportation problem (NLFCTP) in a single stage supply chain network. In a fixed charge transportation problem, fixed cost is incurred for every route, along with the variable cost that is proportional...

The use of non-iterative shortest route algorithm for finding shortest route between points in a network is illustrated. The non-iterative approach can be applied to various network problems that can be solved using shortest route algorithm and provides a solution with much less effort. The...