<title>A<sc>bstract</sc> </title> Effective management of interfaces between procurement, supply, production and distribution for higher efficiency in the supply chain is an important issue in global manufacturing, where the synchronization of production and transportation planning represents important savings in...

This paper investigated an operating theater allocation problem with uncertain surgery duration and emergency demand. Under the consideration of surgery cancellation, a stochastic model was developed to minimize the total expected operating cost. A trade-off was sought between the total cost of...

This paper investigates the integrated inventory and transportation planning under flexible vehicle constraint. To offer better services at lower prices, more and more companies turn to outsource transportation functions to other professional service providers, namely 3rd party logistics...

One of the core problems in software product family (SPF) is the coordination of product building and core asset development, specifically the integration of production strategy decision and core asset scenario selection. In the current paper, a model of Cost Optimization under Functional And...

In this paper, a model that assists developers to evaluate and compare alternative reuse scenarios in software product line (SPL) development systematically in proposed. The model can identify basic activities (abstracted as operations) and precisely relate cost and reliability with each basic...

The multi-depot vehicle routing problem (MDVRP) is a variant of the classical vehicle routing problem (VRP). Most research on MDVRP and its extensions often do not consider the effect of the freight's weight on the total cost. In this paper, the multi-depot vehicle routing problem with...