A combined tramp ship routing, fleet deployment, and network design problem I. K. Moon, Z. B. Qiu & J. H. Wang a Department of Industrial Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-744, Korea b LG Electronics Hi Logistics (China) Co., Ltd., No. 9 Wangjing Beilu, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100102, China c Department of Industrial Engineering, Pusan National University, Busan 609-735, Kore...

Entitled: Metaheuristics for multiobjective capacitated location allocation on logistics networks and submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of complies with the regulations of the University and meets the accepted standards with respect to originality and quality. ABSTRACT Metaheuristics for multiobjective capacitated location allocation on logistics networks Yongl...

In most European countries the various interfaces between logistics and freight transport (such as interaction between different actors, transport planning, transport process etc.) are poorly identified and coordinated. Hence, valuable research, technology and innovation (RTI) potential at mentioned interfaces is not boosted sufficiently. As a consequence, close-to-market innovation is oftentim...

Business process execution generates great amounts of information on process results and intermediate activities. Most of this information is represented by events linked to their related process execution. Process monitoring uses such events and links to correlate incoming events to their corresponding process instances. These links may however get lost in the process of event capturing or not...

An Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system is a fully integrated business management system covering functional areas of an enterprise like Logistics, Production, Finance, Accounting and Human Resources. The implementation of this system is a difficult and high cost proposition that places tremendous demands on corporate time and resources. Most of the ERP implementations have been classified...

A multiagent goal transformation is defined as a directed alteration of goals by the agents in a multiagent system in order to adjust for lack of resources and/or lack of capabilities. Multiagent goal transformation can be used as a uniform coordination mechanism. We describe preliminary research that implements a distributed planning approach incorporating several co-operative planning agents ...

Reverse Logistics Networks (RLNs) have grown in importance after return policies became compulsory. Lately, questions have been raised whether they are as helpful to the environment as possible. Efforts have been conducted to optimize RLNs in terms of their eco-efficiency, minimizing costs and emissions; still, results are not advancing with the necessary speed. Alternatively, the ecoeffectiven...

The purpose of the paper is to demonstrate, how a dynamic aging chain model can support strategic decisions in personnel planning. More specifically, we use a system dynamics model to improve the recruitment and training process in a large German service provider in the wider field of logistics. The key findings are that the aging chain of service operators within the company is affected by a v...

The focus of multiagent planning research has recently turned towards domains with self-interested agents leading to the definition of Coalition–Planning Games (CoPGs). In this paper, we investigate algorithms for solving a restricted class of “safe” CoPGs, in which no agent can benefit from making another agent’s plan invalid. We introduce a novel, generalised solution concept, and show how pr...