In this paper, the authors address a delivery process with time requirements in the supply chain, stated as follows: orders launched from customers are centralized and assigned to firms' depots for the delivery process. The consideration of a depot and a set of customers belonging to different...

This article addresses the distribution network reconfiguration problem (DNRP) and the power flow method. The studied DNRP operates on standard configurations of electrical networks. The main objectives handled are the minimization of power loss, the number of switching operations and the...

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Glossary -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Preliminaries in Decision-Making -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Decision-making problems -- 1.3. Optimization modeling of a decision problem -- 1.3.1. Notation -- 1.3.2....