This paper presents a novel bi-objective multi-product capacitated vehicle routing problem with uncertainty in demand of retailers and volume of products (UCVRP) and heterogeneous vehicle fleets. The first of two conflict fuzzy objective functions is to minimize the cost of the used vehicles, fuel consumption for full loaded vehicles and shortage of products. The second ...

Many defects in manufacturing system are caused by human resources that show the significance of the human resources in manufacturing systems. Most manufacturers attempt to investigate the human resources in order to improve the work conditions and reduce the human error by providing a proper work-rest schedule. On the other hand, manufacturer deal with machine scheduling based on demand and wo...

In many problems from different disciplines such as engineering, physics, medicine, and biology, a series of experimental data is used in order to generate a model that can describe a system with minimum noise. The procedure for building a model provides a description of the behavior of the system under study and can be used to give a prediction for the future. Herein a novel hierarchical bi-le...

this paper empirically investigates the relationship between cpi inflation uncertainty, and private investment in the iranian economy from 1988 to 2010 by using quarterly data. we employ a bivariate var(5)-garch(1,1)-in-mean with diagonal bekk model to discover in a unified framework how are the interactions between the variables. in the model, conditional variance of inflation and private inve...

A bi-level model for traffic signal optimization is developed. The predictive framework applied control in an urban network. potential of the formalization used to increase space influences with simultaneous evaluation green light and cycle durations. Thus, increased allows more parameters be considered, such as vehicles queues flows. particular modification synchronization lights approach real...

This study concentrates on designing a medical waste management system with a hierarchical structure, including a local government and a waste management planner. The upper-level seeks to design and control the waste management facilities by minimizing the environmental risks related to the disposal of medical waste. While the lower-level model is to determine the waste collection plans by only...

a r t i c l e i n f o A bi-level decision support system (BDSS) is proposed for a normative road network design with uncertain travel demand. A bi-level decision support model with link capacity expansion is developed to simultaneously reduce travel delay to road users and mitigate vulnerability of road network. A tractable solution scheme for BDSS is developed. Due to some hierarchy in decisio...

many constants and coefficient effect on the modeling results. in many cases, it is possible these constants and coefficients differ from their real values in the environment, but the modeling results adapted with real boundary conditions due to other factors adjustment during modeling. uncertainty analysis is a tool for assessing the effect of uncertainty of various factors on the modeling res...