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...

Distribution of goods is of importance in logistics and supply chain management. The target of a distribution network is to specify the beneficial way for delivering goods and commodities from supply to demand points. In distribution domain, this activity can usually be viewed as a capacitated...

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....