...' effects on transportation. A well-distributed set of rain gauges is crucial for monitoring services in smart cities. However, those services should consider the uncertainties about the registers of rainfall impacts. In this paper, the authors present a case study of optimal rain gauge location based...

...Rui Yan Purpose The purpose of this paper is to optimize a two-level perishable product supply chain by increasing its revenue with the Internet of Things (IoT). It particularly investigates how radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology impacts the revenue of the supply chain. Design...

... Evolutionary computation Optimization Data mining Big data Swarm intelligence Big data analytics In the traditional decision making or statistical analytics, the results are obtained based on the analysis of the samples from a small data set. The analysis bias or ridiculous coincidence may occur...

... bounding their dots. Optimization Customer preference Customer utility Design engineering constraints Vehicle planning Vehicle-level specification As the auto industry becomes ever-more globalized, automakers, if they are to successfully gamer a large share of the world market’s...

... regulations, many firms are trying to avoid firing workers, as such practice is considered to be inconsistent with the company’s TQM and JIT efforts. © MCB UP Limited 1999 Employees Optimization Production planning Traditionally, the aggregate production planning process has been...