The rapid advancements of Information Communications Technology (ICT) are leading to extreme improvements in computing power and to the design and development of innovative products and new improved versions of the existing ones. As a result, ICT products become obsolete more quickly and in increased quantities resulting to ever-increasing waste of electrical and electronic equipment (e-waste)....

Supply chain management is essential for the success of firms and customer satisfaction. In addition, a suitable performance evaluation system is vital to the effective management of the supply chain. Due to the importance of cost management in the supply chain, an approach based on Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is proposed in the current study for evaluating the cost efficiency of closed-loo...

Supply chain management, Network design, Closed-loop supply chain, disruption. This paper presents an optimization model for the design of a closed-loop supply chain network consisting of suppliers, production facilities, recovery centers, disposal centers, and markets. The proposed model is capable of accounting for risks of disruption and investigating the lateral transshipment strategy to re...

This paper uses variational inequalities to model an oligopolistic closed-loop supply chain engaged in a Cournot pricing game. The manufacturers produce a homogenous product for a set of customer markets. The product can be comprised of both virgin materials and recycled materials obtained from used products returned by the customers. Society is modelled as an additional player whose objective ...

Implementation of sophisticated SCADA systems in the water industry has given plant operators unprecedented capability to monitor and control all aspects of water production and distribution from a centralized control centre. Sophisticated utilities recognize that SCADA need not be composed of one or more isolated “islands of automation” but can and should be a single system operating on a Wide...

ABSTRACT The suggestions for writing for publication given in this paper include writing with honesty, thinking clearly, considering the potential audience, sharing the article with friends, revising the article, and sending the article to the appropriate journal. Empathy for the difficulty of writing is given and illustrated with examples from Eric Hcffer, Ernest Hemingway, Art Buchwald, Chaim...

Immunology Department, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, 76100, Israel; Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplantation Department, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Israel; Gene Therapy Institute, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel; Department of Internal Medicine, Assaf-Harofeh Medical Center, Zerifin, Israel; Laboratory of Experimental Medicine, Park Rabin, Rehovot, Isr...