Determine the optimal carrier selection for a logistics network based on multi-commodity reliability criterion

International Journal of Systems Science

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 949-965

  Lin, Yi Kuei ^a   Yeh, Cheng Ta ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Available capacity; Genetic algorithm; Multi commodity multi state logistics network; Multi commodity reliability; Optimal carrier selection; Recursive sum of disjoint products

Indexed keywords

AVAILABLE CAPACITY; MULTI-COMMODITY; MULTI-STATE; OPTIMAL CARRIER SELECTION; RECURSIVE SUM OF DISJOINT PRODUCTS;

BENCHMARKING; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT;

RELIABILITY;

EID: 84876364070     PISSN: 00207721     EISSN: 14645319     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207721.2011.649368     Document Type: Article

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