There is an urgent demand for information systems to gather heterogeneous information about needs, donations and warehouse stocks to provide an integrated view for decision making in humanitarian logistics. The dynamic flow of information, due to the unpredicted events, requires adaptive features. The traditional relational data model is not suitable due to its schema rigidity. As an alternativ...

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Humanitarian operations have the primary purpose of saving lives and providing relief to people affected by disasters. Due high number disasters that occurred worldwide, research in domain humanitarian has increased. Adequate tooling systematic procedures are increasingly focusingon context minimize difficulties faced operations. Thus, this article aims review existing literature related applyi...

Increasing competition due to market globalisation, product diversity and technological breakthroughs stimulates independent firms to collaborate in a supply chain that allows them to gain mutual benefits. This requires the collective know-how of the coordination mode, including the ability to synchronise interdependent processes, to integrate information systems and to cope with distributed le...

To perform complex tasks, a team of robots requires both reactive and deliberative planning. For reactive control, a restricted variant of Linear Temporal Logic called General Reactivity(1) can be used to synthesize correct-byconstruction controllers in polynomial time, but they often ignore time and resource constraints to maintain tractable synthesis. For deliberation, hierarchical planning c...