Part 1: Humanitarian Logistics Design and Planning -- 1. Humanitarian Logistics and Disaster Management: The Role of Different Stakeholders -- 2. Logistics Planning in Natural Disasters -- 3. Identification and Modeling of Critical Success Factors of a Humanitarian Supply Chain -- 4....

This study presents a cost optimisation model for multi-variety (or multi-type) Recycled Waste Reverse Logistics System (RWRLS). A linear analytical model is formulated which minimises the total reverse logistics costs for multi-variety Recycled Waste Reverse Logistics System (RWRLS) subjected...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to compare some major National Quality Award/Business Excellence Models (NQA/BEM) in terms of the criteria employed and their relative weights. It shows that these models vary both in terms of criteria and their weights. Whereas some of them are changing...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to reveal the limitations of h-index in assessing research performance through citation analysis and suggest two new indexes called prime index (P-index) and value added index (V-index), which are simpler to compute than g-index and more informative. For...