SPECIAL ISSUE- Large Scale Optimization in Supply Chains
Prof. José Antonio Marmolejo
Panamerican University, Mexico
Prof. Igor Litvinchev
Nuevo Leon State University, Mexico
Prof. Junzo Watada
Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Malaysia
Dr. Pandian Vasant
Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Malaysia
In the past decades, many nature-inspired optimization algorithms have been developed and applied successfully for solving a wide range of supply chain optimization problems. Although these techniques have shown good performance when applying to small or medium sized problems, however they still encounter serious challenges when applying to large scale problems.
In today’s global business environment, an effective and reliable supply chain substantially increases a company’s competitive advantage. Supply chain management has played a crucial role in a business’s success. Optimization has been sought to model and solve many of these supply chain problems.
However, as the size of the optimization model grows, the difficulty of finding the optimal or near-optimal solution typically grows exponentially.
For this reason, decomposition algorithms have been developed to tackle the large-scale optimization problems. Decomposition permits the easy ostentation of some sensitivity that is difficult to obtain from the initial problem.
Supply chain optimization problems with a decomposable structure that can be exploited through decomposition techniques.
This special issue is devoted to highlight the recent advances in large scale optimization for supply chains.
We encourage interested researchers to submit their original and unpublished work. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
§ Global supply chains
§ Network design and site location involving multimodal transportation
§ Transportation, autonomous vehicles, drones, and vehicle routing
§ Operations and supply chain design
§ Large scale optimization
§ Assembly/distribution supply chains
§ Meta-heuristic decision making in supply chains
§ Intelligent decision in supply chains
§ Big data analysis in supply chains
§ IoT application in supply chains
Paper Submission Important Dates
Full Paper Submission deadline / 6 August 2018Notification on the review / 4 October 2018
Camera-ready deadline / 10 November 2018
Final submission / 24 December 2018
Note to Authors: All papers should be submitted through the electronic submission system at http://www.idtjournal.prosemanager.com/login.asp.
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Corresponding Editor:
Dr. Pandian Vasant
Faculty of Science and Information Technology
Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Malaysia
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