Motivated by the advantage of just-in-time philosophy, zero-inventory is common in many industries, especially the ones that need fast response with a short lifespan. Accordingly, this paper focuses on coordinated production scheduling and distribution operation problems considering DeJong’s...

The problem of designing a rebalancing algorithm for a large-scale ridehailing system with asymmetric (unbalanced) demand is considered here. We pose the rebalancing problem within a semi Markov decision problem (SMDP) framework with closed queues of vehicles serving stationary, but asymmetric...