We consider the reliable multi configuration capacitated logistics network design problem (RMCLNDP) with system disruptions, concerned with facilities locating, transportation links constructing, and also allocating their limited capacities to the customers in order to satisfy their demands with a minimum expected total cost (including locating costs, link constructing costs, as well as expecte...

Bridge infrastructures are continuously subject to degradation due aging and excess loading, placing users at risk. It has now become a major concern worldwide, where the majority of bridge approaching their design life. This compels engineering community develop robust methods for continuous monitoring including loads passing over them. Here, moving load identification method based on explicit...

Abstract Many urban rail systems operate near capacity given the rapid increase in passenger demand, and unplanned disruptions are unavoidable. From a perspective, duration of trip delays is major concern, may be longer than train delays. Several studies have focused on predicting delays, but research disruption impacts trips limited that not observed directly. This paper proposes probabilistic...

Microgrids have emerged as a practical solution to improve the power system resilience against unpredicted failures and outages. offer substantial benefits for customers through local supply of domestic demands well reducing curtailment during possible disruptions. Furthermore, interdependency natural gas networks is key factor in energy systems’ critical hours. This paper suggests probabilisti...

“Challenged networks” often violate the TCP design key assumption of continuous path availability from the source to the sink node. These networks are the preferred target of Delay/Disruption Tolerant Networking (DTN), which aims at providing a more robust network architecture. Against disruptions, however, even standard TCP offers a certain level of robustness, through its many retransmission ...

BACKGROUND Human factors engineering has allowed a systematic approach to the evaluation of adverse events in a multitude of high-stake industries. This study sought to develop an initial methodology for identifying and classifying flow disruptions in the cardiac operating room (OR). METHODS Two industrial engineers with expertise in human factors workflow disruptions observed 10 cardiac oper...

Essays on Supply Chain Management with Model Uncertainty by Mengshi Lu Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering – Industrial Engineering and Operations Research University of California, Berkeley Professor Zuo-Jun Shen, Chair Traditional supply chain management models typically require complete model information, including structural relationships (e.g., how pricing decisions affect customer demand)...