In order to improve the operational efficiency of small and mid-sized freight carriers, collaborative transportation planning (CTP) approaches enabling an exchange of customer requests are proposed for horizontal carrier coalitions. Through request exchange carriers can further reduce their costs of fulfilling customer requests compared to the case of isolated planning in which no request is ex...

Although feature-based process planning plays a vital role in automating and integrating design and manufacturing for efficient production, its off-line properties prohibit the shop floor controller from rapidly coping with dynamic shop floor status such as unexpected production errors and rush orders. The objective of the paper is to address a neural network-based adaptive and dynamic approach...

This paper presents formal model of the distributed planning problem in dynamic, semi-trusted and opportunistic environment, suggest an abstract distributed planning architecture, and discusses also the various planning techniques to be further deployed.

There has been concern in the literature about the adequacy of the traditional model of marketing planning, which focuses on what decisions should be made and not on how to make them. The aim of this article is a new conceptualisation that proposes key management processes about how marketing planning decisions are made in a dynamic context. The motives for this conceptualisation are to contrib...

Supply chains are networks of independent companies in a dynamic environment. The goal of supply chain management is the coordination of these companies in dynamic environment. This research addresses the decentralized coordination of independent operations planning in order to achieve near-optimal solution. Using a heuristic search with local optimization we coordinate two partners of a supply...

Enterprise Architecture (EA) models provide information on the fundamental as-is structure of a company or governmental agency and thus serve as an informational basis for informed decisions in enterprise transformation projects. At the same time EA models provide a means to develop and visualize to-be states in the EA planning process. Results of a literature review and implications from indus...

Route planning system could be used as a part of supply chain management information system or as a complete application. The main challenge in route planning system is directing vehicles to their destination in a dynamic traffic situation, with the aim of reducing travel times and enabling the efficient use of the available road capacity in the road transportation network for the supply chain ...

Self-adaptive component-based architectures provide methods and mechanisms to support the dynamic adaptation of their structure under evolving execution context. Dynamic adaptation is particularly relevant in the domain of ubiquitous computing, which is subject to numerous unexpected changes of the execution context. In this paper, we focus on changes in the service provider landscape: business...

Dynamic models and power models of autonomous ground vehicles are needed to enable realistic motion planning Howard & Kelly (2007); Yu et al. (2010) in unstructured, outdoor environments that have substantial changes in elevation, consist of a variety of terrain surfaces, and/or require frequent accelerations and decelerations. At least 4 different motion planning tasks can be accomplished usin...

Probabilistic sampling methods have become very popular to solve single-shot path planning problems. Rapidlyexploring Random Trees (RRTs) in particular have been shown to be efficient in solving high dimensional problems. Even though several RRT variants have been proposed for dynamic replanning, these methods only perform well in environments with infrequent changes. This paper addresses the d...