High congestion of returned product at remanufacturing facility causes substantial delays and consequently remarketing value losses for time-sensitive and high-tech products with short life cycles, such as electronic ...

The capacitated location-routing problem (CLRP) is a new research area in logistics and distribution management. This problem combines two difficult problems: the facility location problem (FLP) and vehicle routing problem ...

In this paper a new problem of three stage disassembly-assembly scheduling is introduced and reviewed. This problem, which was arisen from the aviation industry characteristics, is a generalization of the two stage assembly ...

This research presents and solves a new mathematical model for School Bus Routing Problem (SBRP). SBRP is a specific case of Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP). Despite prevalent models, this model includes location and routing ...

The environmental rules of reverse logistic networks have caused important economic growth in the past decades. To integrate forward logistic networks with reverse logistics networks a helpful method is to design both ...

A Basic assumption of MADM methods such as SAW and TOPSIS is the statistical independence of criteria. Violating this assumption would result in erroneous decisions. However, there are many cases in which criteria are ...

In design of experiments, analysis and identifying those variables that affect the outputs are of interest. Response surface methodology is a mathematical-statistical method to optimize the experiment outputs. This method ...