for the rural population, an improvement in the income of the agriculture and allied sectors is essential for improving the welfare, rural economic prosperity, and the overall economic development. the objective of this study was to determine the optimal pattern in various activities of forest fringe villagers of hezarjarib area in 2013 for management of resources and rural development planning...

this paper is a research on the ordering planning of a supply chain with one supplier, multi buyer and multi deteriorating items. items have fixed life time and expire dates. the ordering period is taken as variable and must be computed the proposed models. the problem is studied via two different approaches the first is the joint replenishment, based on the hwang and chew's model [3] and ...

Since there has been tremendous progress in planning in the process industry during the last 25 years, it might be worthwhile to give an overview of the current state-of-the-art of planning problems in the process industry. This is the purpose of the current contribution which has the following structure: we start with some conceptional thoughts and some comments on special features of planning...

in today's globalization, an effective integration of production and distribution plans into a unified framework is crucial for attaining competitive advantage. this paper addresses an integrated multi-product and multi-time period production/distribution planning problem for a two-echelon supply chain subject to the real-world variables and constraints. it is assumed that all transportations a...

nowadays, the necessity of accurate quantitative decision support methods is becoming a critical subject for managers as rivalry between organizations caused a more fragile economic environment and brand reputation is becoming more important. furthermore, dealing with incidents after they happened is not accepted by customers anymore. managers require powerful decision making tools to support t...

Heuristic search is a powerful approach that has successfully been applied to broad class of planning problems, including classical planning, multi-objective and probabilistic modelled as stochastic shortest path (SSP) problem. Here, we extend the reach heuristic more expressive namely paths (MOSSPs), which require computing coverage set non-dominated policies. We design new algorithms MOLAO* M...