-The selection of third party logistics (TPL) providers is an important issue for enterprises to outsource their logistics business. In this paper we propose a comprehensive evaluation model for TPL suppliers based on AHP method. Furthermore, we Base on the evaluation index system including logistics cost, the logistics operation efficiency and the basic qualities of service. The efficiency and...

An emergency plan is an important artifact used throughout emergencies. Therefore, it is crucial that this plan covers the different scenarios faced by emergency team and that the prescribed procedures generate the desired results. To achieve these goals, emergency plans need to be exhaustively tested prior to its adoption. Emergency teams usually use simulation to test plans, but it is an expe...

How to solve the emergency properly has been an important aspect to test the administrative ability of governments. Emergency plans describe the domain knowledge of emergency handling, which is the basis of high-efficient response, and it’s necessary to share knowledge in emergency plans among participating organizations. Presently, knowledge representation and sharing is becoming the mainstrea...

This article focuses on the issue of airport emergency plans, which are documents describing reactions to events with impact on aviation safety or aviation security. The article specifically focuses on the use and creation of emergency plans, where could be found a number of disagreements between different stakeholders, for which the airport emergency plan applies. Those are the friction surfac...

The rescue operations for emergency events usually require multiple emergency departments to cooperate with each other to provide effective and efficient resource allocation plans within a short time limit and dynamically adjust the plans as necessary. In the paper, an agent-based resource allocation approach is proposed to automatically allocate rescue resources to concurrent emergency events ...

The 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) served as a conduit for many previously uninsured U.S. citizens to obtain health insurance; however, insurance does not necessarily equate to timely access to care. A 2015 study found that efforts by policymakers and health insurance plans to drive Medicaid patients out of emergency departments (ED) and into primary care clinics are not ...

This article deals with a new approach to the airport emergency plans, which are the basic documents and manuals for dealing with events with impact on safety or security. The article describes the identified parts in which the current airport emergency plans do not fulfill their role and which should therefore be considered in the creation of corrective measures. All these issues have been ide...

In case of emergency, the coordination of different services deals with different working methods, different languages, different instruments, different sensors and different data representations. Thus, the coordination of services includes heterogeneity problems that can be managed with the help of ontology matching techniques. In this paper we present a scenario where the requirements for ont...