Designing and evaluating sustainable logistics networks

Designing Eco-Effective Reverse Logistics Networks

Reverse Logistics Networks (RLNs) have grown in importance after return policies became compulsory. Lately, questions have been raised whether they are as helpful to the environment as possible. Efforts have been conducted to optimize RLNs in terms of their eco-efficiency, minimizing costs and emissions; still, results are not advancing with the necessary speed. Alternatively, the ecoeffectiven...

Environmental Informatics for Sustainable Logistics

In the first part we provide a review of the rather young field of Environmental Informatics. We argue that Environmental Informatics methods and tools are powerful means in environmental information processing for supporting sustainable development. In the second part we introduce a case study dealing with sustainable logistic systems for city courier services based on agent-based simulation m...

Freight Transport, Logistics and Sustainable Development

Designing Sustainable Rural Wireless Networks for Developing Regions

Designing Sustainable Rural Wireless Networks for Developing Regions

MACEDON: Methodology for Automatically Creating, Evaluating, and Designing Overlay Networks

Currently, researchers designing and implementing largescale overlay services employ disparate techniques at each stage in the production cycle: design, implementation, experimentation, and evaluation. As a result, complex and tedious tasks are often duplicated leading to ineffective resource use and difficulty in fairly comparing competing algorithms. In this paper, we present MACEDON, an infr...