Utilizing an empty backhaul vehicle on its way back to its domicile after a normal delivery trip has attracted many logistics carriers and third party logistics companies in the current revenue-hungry economy. In this paper, a backhaul vehicle routing and delivery scheduling problem is studied...

Although there is an extensive set of literature on inventory management for perishable items, a majority of these operate at a higher level where all items are assumed to have a fixed shelf-life. However, depending on how they are handled in transit as well as during storage, the remaining...

Power cycles using alternative working fluids are currently receiving significant attention. Selection of working fluid among many candidates is a key topic and guidelines have been presented. A general problem is that the selection is based on numerous criteria, such as thermodynamic...