Optimisation of Distribution Network Applying Logistic Outsourcing

Optimisation Based Strategic Configuration of Distribution Network

The design and configuration of an effective supply chain has been widely recognised as being of fundamental importance to the business performance of all companies within the present competitive market. In supply chain structure, outbound physical distribution channel can be regarded as the key stage which will meet the customers’ demand and requirements directly. This paper mainly involves st...

Applying Extremal Optimisation To Dynamic Optimisation Problems

A Flexible Class of Skew Logistic Distribution

‎Here we consider  a new class of skew logistic  distribution as a generalized mixture of the standard logistic and skew logistic distributions‎, ‎and study some of its important aspects‎. ‎The tail behaviour of the  distribution is compared with that of the skew logistic distribution and a location-scale extension of the distribution is proposed‎. ‎Fu...

Sequence analysis-based hyper-heuristics for water distribution network optimisation

Hyper-heuristics operate at the level above traditional (meta-)heuristics that ‘optimise the optimiser’. These algorithms can combine low level heuristics to create bespoke algorithms for particular classes of problems. The low level heuristics can be mutation operators or hill climbing algorithms and can include industry expertise. This paper investigates the use of a new hyperheuristic based ...

A generalized logistic distribution

for −∞ < z < ∞. The properties of this distribution and its generalizations have been studied by several authors. Of particular eminence are the numerous papers on this topic by Professor N. Balakrishnan and his colleagues; see, for example, Balakrishnan [1, 2, 3], Balakrishnan and Aggarwala [4], Balakrishnan et al. [5, 7, 12], Balakrishnan and Chan [6], Balakrishnan and Joshi [8], Balakrishnan...