The regulation of electricity distribution networks faces new challenges, as consumer preferences for network services change, distributed energy resources are connected in increasing number, and advanced information communication technologies become ubiquitous. This work discusses how, within this context, national regulatory authorities Great Britain Italy already employ instruments establish...

In the current competitive, integrated approach to supply chain management and distribution network design, especially in conditions of uncertainty, in order to ensure timely needs of customers in terms of savings in costs and raise the level of customer service, in recent years. Estimating the stochastic demand for transportation distribution networks is a crucial factor in transport planning ...

Over the last years, there have been initiated several pilots with autonomous minibusses. Unlike regular bus services, minibusses serve a limited number of stops and more flexible schedules since they do not require drivers. This allows operation line through combination sublines, where subline serves subset consecutive in same order as original line. paper studies frequency setting (SFS) probl...

Panel data on Ghanaian manufacturing firms are used to test predictions from models of irreversible investment under uncertainty. Information on the entrepreneur’s subjective probability distribution over future demand for the firm’s products is used to construct the expected variance of demand, which is used as a measure of uncertainty. Empirical results support the prediction that firms wait ...

abstract: in most industries the cost of raw materials and component parts constitutes almost 60% percent of cost of a product (in some industries up to 80%). in this situation, proper sourcing can play a key role in an organization's efficiency and effectiveness, because it has a direct effect on cost reduction, profitability and flexibility of a company. in this paper, determining the op...