Uncertainty management in remanufacturing decisions: A consideration of uncertainties in market demand, quantity, and quality of returns

ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part B: Mechanical Engineering

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Raihanian Mashhadi, A ^a   Esmaeilian, Behzad ^b   Behdad, Sara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b Northeastern University   (United States)

Author keywords

chance constrained programming; End of use product recovery; Remanufacturing market; Upgrade planning

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; COST EFFECTIVENESS; OPTIMIZATION; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; PROFITABILITY;

CHANCE-CONSTRAINED PROGRAMMING; ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATIONS; ORIGINAL EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURERS; PRODUCT RECOVERY; REMANUFACTURED PRODUCTS; SOURCES OF UNCERTAINTY; STOCHASTIC OPTIMIZATION MODEL; UNCERTAINTY MANAGEMENT;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

EID: 85013792163     PISSN: 23329017     EISSN: 23329025     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4029759     Document Type: Conference Paper

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