this paper develops a single-vendor single-retailer supply chain for multi-product. the proposed model is based on vendor managed inventory (vmi) approach and vendor uses the retailer's data for better decision making. number of orders and available capital are the constraints of the model. in this system, shortages are backordered; therefore, the vendor’s warehouse capacity is another limitati...

In recent years, the optimization of multi-objective service composition in distributed systems has become an important issue. Existing work makes a smaller set Pareto-optimal solutions to represent Pareto Front (PF). However, they do not support complex mapping quality (QoS) objective space, thus having limitations providing representative solutions. We propose enhanced differential evolution ...

Vendor selection decisions are complicated by the fact that various conflicting multi-objective factors must be considered in the decision making process. The problem of vendor selection becomes still more compli-cated with the inclusion of incremental discount pricing schedule. Such hard combinatorial problems when solved using meta heuristics produce near optimal solutions. This paper propose...