The development of artificial intelligence and the recent COVID-19 pandemic as well as the emergence of other diseases has led to dramatic changes in the overall supply chain development. The choice of a suitable supplier will be the key to ensuring...
Customers’ pressure, social responsibility, and government regulations have motivated the enterprises to consider the reverse logistics (RL) in their operations. Recently, companies frequently outsource their RL practices to third-party reverse logis...
Logistics is an important service sector, contributing to improving the competitiveness of the economy. Therefore, along with increasing the application of technology and effective business models, it is necessary to increase the connectivity of the...
Due to the increase in the impact of different manufacturing processes on the environment, green manufacturing processes are the prime focus of many current pieces of research. In the current article, a green machining process for stainless steel and...
Optimal renewable energy source (RES) selection needs a strategic decision for reducing environmental pollutions, use of conventional resources, and improving economic development. In the process of RESs evaluation, several aspects like environmental...
As a part of the service industry, product design practitioners should possess an understanding of the multifaceted factors and solutions that contribute to delivering exceptional service quality. However, related research on the service quality fact...
To coordinate the economy, security and environment protection in the power system operation, a two-step many-objective optimal power flow (MaOPF) solution method is proposed. In step 1, it is the first time that knee point-driven evolutionary algori...
International economic trade plays a crucial role in global merchandise supply chains; as such, the development of industries is critical to enhance the expansion and growth of marine transportation services. In Vietnam, commercial activities are rap...
Public–private partnership (PPP) infrastructure projects have attracted attention over the past few years. In this regard, the selection of private partners is an integral decision to ensure its success. The selection process needs to identify,...
Modern digital media requires digitalization to protect cultural traditions, languages, and artistic expressions meant for future generations. Implementing the best digitalization strategy remains difficult because of unpredictable technological adva...
Nowadays, multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) methods are used widely in many fields of research and applications. Many studies have shown that MCDM approaches are effective in determining the optimal solution to a variety of symmetrical and asymme...
The Fermatean fuzzy set (FFS) is a momentous generalization of a intuitionistic fuzzy set and a Pythagorean fuzzy set that can more accurately portray the complex vague information of elements and has stronger expert flexibility during decision analy...
The hospital location selection problem is one of the most important decisions in the healthcare sector in big cities due to population growth and the possibility of a high number of daily referred patients. A poor location selection process can lead...
The selection of offshore wind farm site (OWFS) has important strategic significance for vigorously developing offshore new energy and is deemed as a complicated uncertain multicriteria decision-making (MCDM) process. To further promote offshore wind...
2 December 2019
Medicine is the main means to reduce cancer mortality. However, some medicines face various risks during transportation and storage due to the particularity of medicines, which must be kept at a low temperature to ensure their quality. In this regard...
The United Nations’ sustainable development goals have highlighted the significance of improving supply chain sustainability and ensuring the proper distribution of orders. This study proposes a novel framework involving Z-number, game theory,...
The energy storage is an important character for sustainable energy structures and the prospective future economy. This paper aims to propose a multi-attribute decision analysis (MADA) approach to prioritize and choose the energy storage system (ESS)...
In Poland, there is a high ratio of private transport and unfavorable patterns of daily commuting. These patterns can be changed by introducing comfortable and eco-friendly vehicles, such as e-scooters and e-bikes. At the same time, the development o...
Quality function deployment (QFD) is a customer-driven quality management tool that can improve system quality, promote innovation, and enhance the core competitiveness of enterprises. Nonetheless, the traditional QFD method has defects in handling t...
Biomass is a promising form of clean energy that could be utilized worldwide for huge household demand. As the world is constantly fighting climate change and carbon emissions, the adoption of biofuels for households minimizes the ill effects on the...
Robots are being increasingly utilized for various operations in industrial and household applications. One such application is for spray painting, wherein atomized paint particles are sprayed on a surface to coat the surface with paint. As there are...
To satisfy Jordan’s growing demand for electricity and to diversify its energy mix, the Jordanian government is considering a number of electricity-generation technologies that would allow for locally available resources to be used alongside imported...
The delays and disruptions during the pandemic have awakened interest in the sustainability and resilience of production systems to emergencies. In that context, the deployment of smart technologies has emerged as an almost mandatory development orie...
5 March 2023
The use of emergency departments (EDs) has increased during the COVID-19 outbreak, thereby evidencing the key role of these units in the overall response of healthcare systems to the current pandemic scenario. Nevertheless, several disruptions have e...
With the development of green agriculture, the demand of farmers for operation loans is increasing. Supply chain finance is becoming a new way to solve the problem of difficult credit in agricultural development. As the importance of sustainability i...
The life insurance sector plays a critical role in the financial stability of countries due to its long-term liability structure and strong interaction with the financial system. The aim of this study is to evaluate the performance of the life insura...
Improving ship energy efficiency has become a critical priority for reducing fuel consumption and meeting international decarbonization targets. In this study, eight major groups of energy efficiency improvement systems—including wind and solar...
Rivers are an important mediator between human activities and the natural environment. They provide multiple functions, including irrigation, transportation, food supply, recreation, and water supply. Therefore, evaluations of water quality and pollu...
As a consequence of increased awareness of environmental preservation and the associated rigorous regulations, the adoption of sustainable practices has become a crucial element for corporate organizations in regard to their supply chains. In the che...
Rapid progress in sustainable and intelligent transportation has intensified interest in smart airport initiatives, driven by the need to support environmentally responsible and technology-enabled aviation development. As complex sociotechnical subsy...
Investing in urban scenic spots is a complex process that requires careful consideration of multiple criteria to ensure sustainability and efficiency. In the post-pandemic era, the uncertainty of future trends necessitates effective risk management a...
In this paper, a mathematical model for an extended multi-objective portfolio selection (EMOPS) problem is explored with liquidity considered as another objective function besides the risk and return. The model is mathematically formulated in an unce...
Cerebral malaria (CM) is the severe progression of an infection with Plasmodium falciparum, causing detrimental damage to brain tissue and is the most frequent cause of Plasmodium falciparum mortality. The critical role of brain-infiltrating CD8+ T c...
Underground tunnel construction projects using tunnel boring machines (TBMs) require a holistic risk perspective. Such projects face various risks arising from social, economic, political, workforce, and regulatory aspects during project execution. I...
The water and energy sectors are fundamentally linked. In Jordan, especially in the face of a changing climate, the water–energy nexus holds a number of challenges but also opportunities. A key point in exploring synergies is the identification...
In this study, a graph-based method is implemented for sensor placement in a water distribution network (WDN) instead of using a hydraulic model. The proposed methodology determines the pressure sensors’ location based on the node betweenness c...
The oil and gas industry plays a significant role in the economies of many countries today. Due to various factors, including oil price fluctuations, wars, sanctions, and many other instances, selling and supplying these products at low prices is nec...
Overproduction is one of the most significant wastes of Lean that can occur in any manufacturing company. Identifying and prioritizing failures that lead to overproduction are crucial tasks for operational managers and engineers. Therefore, this pape...
Multi-objective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs) are widely used to optimize multi-purpose reservoir operations. Considering that most outcomes of MOEAs are Pareto optimal sets with a large number of incomparable solutions, it is not a trivial task fo...
Attribute spoofing is a major security threat in information exchange solutions based on Ciphertext-Policy Attribute-Based-Encryption (CP-ABE) and distributed CP-ABE (dCP-ABE), which can compromise privacy and security. This threat occurs when an att...
A traditional urban drainage system (UDS) planning approach generally considers the most probable future rainfall scenario. However, this single scenario (i.e., scenario-optimal) planning approach is prone to failure under recent climatic conditions,...
Amongst various urban crises, some fundamental ones require long-term policies and large-scale developments to be effectively mitigated. Since multiple government-led large-scale projects raised more and more public opposition, the question whether s...
Physical attacks pose a significant threat to the security of embedded processors, which have become an integral part of our daily lives. Processors can be vulnerable to fault injection attacks that threaten their normal and secure behavior. Such att...
To achieve the goals of sustainable economic and environmental protection, more and more firms intend to implement green supply chain (GSC) initiatives in their products. The adoption of GSC initiatives in turn influences the firms’ operations perfor...
In this paper, a parameterized intuitionistic fuzzy distance measure-based combined compromise solution (PIFDM-CoCoSo) framework is proposed to solve the multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) problem with completely unknown criterion weight informati...
The diversity of energy efficiency appliances existent on the market, with all its different issues, contributes to the existence of several tradeoffs (e.g., energy and water consumption vs. initial investment), which make the consumer’s choice...
Load scheduling is a key factor in demand side management (DSM), which manages available generation capacity with regard to the required demand. In this paper, a triple-objective load scheduling optimization problem (LSOP) is formulated for achieving...
This work focused on enhancing the flux on hydrophobic polymeric membranes aimed for direct contact membrane distillation desalination (DCMD) process without compromising salt rejection efficiency. Successful coating of commercial porous poly-tetrafl...
Low-carbon scheduling of regional integrated energy systems (RIES) based only on energy-balance models may overlook the physical operating limits of distribution, gas, and heating networks, resulting in a gap between scheduling outcomes and actual op...
With high penetration of renewable energy sources (RESs), advanced microgrid distribution networks are considered to be promising for covering uncertainties from the generation side with demand response (DR). This paper analyzes the effectiveness of...
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