Land consolidation is an effectual land management procedure aiming to sustainable
development. A critical issue in land consolidation schemes is land valuation which is a type …

Integrated supply chain planning is well understood by theory and widely applied in practice–
however, only with respect to intra-organisational supply chains. In inter-organisational …

While carriers can collaborate to reduce empty traveling miles in truckload ship**, this is
difficult to realize because each party is self-interested who may not share his private …

We address the mechanism design problem for a market with multiple buyers and sellers.
Each buyer demands some bundle (s) of various commodities, and each seller supplies …

We introduce an auction design framework for large markets with hundreds of items and
complex bidder preferences. Such markets typically lead to computationally hard allocation …

In the highly competitive transportation market, small freight forwarders can form an alliance
to secure capacity in advance and then share the capacity to fulfill their ship** requests …

In this paper, two new algorithms for dual decomposition-based distributed optimization are
presented. Both algorithms rely on the quadratic approximation of the dual function of the …

This paper considers a decentralized supply chain, where multiple independent
manufacturing facilities manage some capital-intensive equipments or resources shared …

This paper considers firms making collaborative production-distribution planning with
shipment consolidation to reduce costs. However, the firms have private cost information …

In scenarios where systems must execute a series of missions with limited breaks, the
difficulty in assigning maintenance activities is of paramount importance. Generally, the …