Estimating surplus food supply for food rescue and delivery operations

Socio-Economic Planning Sciences

Volumn 57, Issue , 2017, Pages 73-83

  Nair, Divya J ^a   Rashidi, Taha Hossein ^a   Dixit, Vinayak V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Artificial neural network; Forecasting surplus food donation; Multiple linear regression; Relief logistics; Structural equation model; Sustainable food recovery and redistribution

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; FOOD AID; FOOD SUPPLY; LOGISTICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84998679650     PISSN: 00380121     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seps.2016.09.004     Document Type: Article

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