How do production systems in biological cells maintain their function in changing environments?Logistics Research - Tập 5 - Trang 79-87 - 2012
Moritz Emanuel Beber, Marc-Thorsten Hütt
Metabolism is a fascinating natural production and distribution process. Metabolic systems can be represented as a layered network, where the input layer consists of all the nutrients in the environment (raw materials entering the production process in the cell), subsequently to be processed by a complex network of biochemical reactions (middle layer) and leading to a well-defined output pattern, ...... hiện toàn bộ
Key issues of the upstream segment of biofuels supply chain: a qualitative analysisLogistics Research - Tập 5 - Trang 21-31 - 2012
Maria de Lourdes Bravo, Mohamed M. Naim, Andrew Potter
The role that liquid biofuels will play in future energy systems will depend on biomass-to-energy supply chain to overcome the barriers that may hinder the development and international trade, as well as a sustainable and efficient production of biomass resources. This research paper is based on an extensive literature review, and its purpose is to identify and to investigate the variables that, t...... hiện toàn bộ
A review of competitive facility location in the planeLogistics Research - Tập 7 - Trang 1-12 - 2014
Tammy Drezner
In this paper, we review competitive location models. Retail facilities operate in a competitive environment with an objective of profit and market share maximization. These facilities are different from each other in their overall attractiveness to consumers. The basic problem is the optimal location of one or more new facilities in a market where competition already exists or will exist in the f...... hiện toàn bộ
Topological robustness of the global automotive industryLogistics Research - Tập 9 Số 1 - Trang 1-17 - 2016
Brintrup, Alexandra, Ledwoch, Anna, Barros, Jose
The manufacturing industry is characterized by large-scale interdependent networks as companies buy goods from one another, but do not control or design the overall flow of materials. The result is a complex emergent structure with which companies connect to each other. The topology of this structure impacts the industry’s robustness to disruptions in companies, countries, and regions. In this wor...... hiện toàn bộ
Global urbanization: a major challenge for logisticsLogistics Research - Tập 6 - Trang 57-62 - 2013
Wolf-Rüdiger Bretzke
By 2050, 70 % of the world’s population, that is, about 6.3 billion people, will live in the world’s major urban areas. At the forefront of the urbanization trend, we see the development of so-called “megacities” which, by definition, have a population exceeding 10 million inhabitants. Traffic congestion is frequently reported to be a megacity’s most pressing infrastructural problem, even outranki...... hiện toàn bộ
Performance- and value-oriented decision support for supply chain configurationLogistics Research - Tập 7 - Trang 1-16 - 2014
Marcus Brandenburg, Heinrich Kuhn, Robert Schilling, Stefan Seuring
The task of supply chain (SC) configuration is to establish a product-specific SC for new products. Apart from cross-regional network aspects and inter-disciplinary factors, the problem complexity is driven by dynamics and uncertainties of short product life cycles. SC configuration affects SC performance and value creation. Hence, resulting impacts have to be measured and compared under considera...... hiện toàn bộ
A petrol station replenishment problem: new variant and formulationLogistics Research - Tập 9 - Trang 1-18 - 2016
Abdelaziz Benantar, Rachid Ouafi, Jaouad Boukachour
One of the most important problems in the petroleum industry is the well-known petrol station replenishment problem with time windows, which calls for the determination of optimal routes by using a fleet of tank trucks to serve a set of petrol stations over a given planning horizon. In this paper, we introduce a model and solve a specific problem that originates from a real-life application arisin...... hiện toàn bộ