Handbook on Decision Making
Volume 3: Trends and Challenges in Intelligent Decision Support Systems
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The facility layout problem is one of the most important and complex problems in operations management. When the area requirements of departments are different, the problem is known as the unequal-area facilit...
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The problem of autonomous robot navigation in indoor environments must overcome various difficulties such as the dimensionality of the data, the computational cost, and the possible presence of mobile objects....
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The CEIPA Business School is a Colombian higher education institution, characterized by providing different education models in the country since its inception. For this reason, CEIPA became the first universi...
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In the supply chain management research field, the analysis of collaborative strategies and the joint management of inventory and transport of goods have increased the attention or academics and practitioners ...
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Logistics decisions of inventory allocation and transportation are strongly linked to each other since one directly affects the other, as is the case of how reducing the inventory in a customer facility may le...
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Warehousing is one of the most important logistics activities in companies, since it generates a great portion of logistics costs related to resource consumption such as energy, machinery, facilities, labor, a...
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Transportation processes into cities are complex activities that require to consider the profitability and competitive goals of companies, but also external factor that affect their operations, such as city re...
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Selecting the positions in which products should be storage in warehouses is an important task in logistics administration, since the costs and level services of the whole supply chain can be affected for this...
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The Joint replenishment problem (JRP) is a model for inventory optimization when ordering multiple products is required. This model allows reducing total inventory costs compared to the practice of performing ...
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This chapter presents a genetic multiobjective model for the goods distribution optimization through collaborative inventory between m suppliers and n customers, based on the vendor-managed inventory strategy ...
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Vehicle routing problems for the transport of people or goods are combinatorial problems belonging to the nondeterministic polynomial time (NP-Hard) category. This means that the solution is very limited if us...
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In the supply chain management, the goods collection and delivery process have a strategic place that drives the development of companies. However, modeling these processes in order to facilitate decision-mak...
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In a lean manufacturing environment there are lot techniques, methodologies and philosophies been applied. One of the most important is the 5’S, that is focused to improve the work site order for mechanical to...