[HTML][HTML] Explainable AI for operational research: A defining framework, methods, applications, and a research agenda

KW De Bock, K Coussement, A De Caigny… - European Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
The ability to understand and explain the outcomes of data analysis methods, with regard to
aiding decision-making, has become a critical requirement for many applications. For …

Applications of artificial intelligence in inventory management: A systematic review of the literature

Ö Albayrak Ünal, B Erkayman, B Usanmaz - Archives of Computational …, 2023 - Springer
Today, companies that want to keep up with technological development and globalization
must be able to effectively manage their supply chains to achieve high quality, increased …

Industry 4.0: Opportunities and challenges for operations management

TL Olsen, B Tomlin - Manufacturing & Service Operations …, 2020 - pubsonline.informs.org
Industry 4.0 connotes a new industrial revolution centered around cyber-physical systems. It
posits that the real-time connection of physical and digital systems, along with new enabling …

[HTML][HTML] Deep reinforcement learning for inventory control: A roadmap

RN Boute, J Gijsbrechts, W Van Jaarsveld… - European Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has shown great potential for sequential decision-
making, including early developments in inventory control. Yet, the abundance of choices …

Reinforcement learning for logistics and supply chain management: Methodologies, state of the art, and future opportunities

Y Yan, AHF Chow, CP Ho, YH Kuo, Q Wu… - … Research Part E …, 2022 - Elsevier
With advances in technologies, data science techniques, and computing equipment, there
has been rapidly increasing interest in the applications of reinforcement learning (RL) to …

[PDF][PDF] Machine learning's influence on supply chain and logistics optimization in the oil and gas sector: a comprehensive analysis

AC Odimarha, SA Ayodeji, EA Abaku - Computer Science & IT …, 2024 - academia.edu
Odimarha, Ayodeji, & Abaku, P. 725-740 Page 726 carbon emissions. By analyzing factors
such as traffic patterns, weather conditions, and road conditions, ML algorithms can …

[HTML][HTML] Inventory management of new products in retailers using model-based deep reinforcement learning

T Demizu, Y Fukazawa, H Morita - Expert Systems with Applications, 2023 - Elsevier
This study addresses the optimal inventory management problem for new smartphone
products as an effective example of a supply chain with a short product life cycle. The …

Artificial intelligence in smart logistics cyber-physical systems: State-of-the-arts and potential applications

Y Liu, X Tao, X Li, AW Colombo… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Logistics creates tremendous economic value through supporting the trading of goods
between firms and customers, thereby improving the welfare of the society. In order to …

A deep q-network for the beer game: Deep reinforcement learning for inventory optimization

A Oroojlooyjadid, MR Nazari… - … & Service Operations …, 2022 - pubsonline.informs.org
Problem definition: The beer game is widely used in supply chain management classes to
demonstrate the bullwhip effect and the importance of supply chain coordination. The game …

Use of proximal policy optimization for the joint replenishment problem

N Vanvuchelen, J Gijsbrechts, R Boute - Computers in Industry, 2020 - Elsevier
Deep reinforcement learning has been coined as a promising research avenue to solve
sequential decision-making problems, especially if few is known about the optimal policy …