Today's societies need more electricity for sustainable development. But the faster growth in demand than supply has led to governments to face the challenge of secure power provision. Demand response (DR) is a clean and ...

This research analyzes the competition of two risk-neutral and risk-averse centralized financial chains (FCs) while the government regulates the market to prevent the disproportionately costly interest rates by eliminating ...

Considering the importance of distributing and selling products through various channels and their different costs, choosing a distribution channel and planning and controlling their operations in order to serve customers ...

In today's competitive world, making appropriate strategic decisions is one of the major challenges industries and businesses facing to create competitive advantages in future. MCDM approaches can provide an integrated ...

In this paper, we present a two-level supply chain (SC) consisting of a single manufacturer that suppling one type of deteriorating product to a single retailer that the market demand rate for the product is time-varying ...

Dynamism and evolution in financial markets and specifically stock markets represents a complex network with many relations between different finance agents and corporations. So there are many researches analyzing different ...

Appointment scheduling systems are applied in a broad variety of healthcare environments to reduce costs and increase quality of services. This study is concerned with the problem of appointment scheduling in a distributed ...

This paper aims in assessing the effects of governmental policies on a maximal covering location problem facing stochastic demand which is sensitive to both the retail price and facility advertising effort. A reward-penalty ...

Joint optimal inventory control and preventive maintenance is a rich area of academic research that is still in its infancy and has the potential to affect manufacturing systems' performance. Also, due to uncertainties in ...

Organizations are nowadays seeking competitive advantage over other rivals, reduction of costs, and customer satisfaction for their progress and development. One of the key factors in reaching the competitive advantage is ...

Multi-mode resource-constrained project scheduling problem (MRCPSP) is one of the most important extensions of the basic RCPSP. In this paper, a new mathematical model for MRCPSP is presented with a time-quality trade-off ...

In this paper, a bi-objective multi-product single-vendor single-buyer supply chain problem is studied under green vendor-managed inventory (VMI) policy based on the economic production quantity (EPQ) model. To bring the ...