Supply chain network design (SCND) determines the structure of a chain and affects its
costs and performance. SCND deals with a variety of decisions such as determining …

Multilevel decision-making techniques aim to deal with decentralized management
problems that feature interactive decision entities distributed throughout a multiple level …

In the booming online-to-offline (O2O) food ordering and delivery market, numerous
independent restaurants are competing for orders placed by customers via online food …

Bilevel optimization problems are hierarchical optimization problems where the feasible
region of the so-called upper level problem is restricted by the graph of the solution set …

We address an intra-supply chain competition where a producer and resellers competing to
achieve their goals, while taking into consideration the uncertainties and disruption risks. We …

The goal of the paper is to provide an overview of the following classes of models: Gradual
cover models: These models seek to relax the “all or nothing” assumption by replacing it with …

In the maritime industry, the stakeholders comprising the port authorities, shipping
companies, and port operators often compete and collaborate within an ecological system …

Bilevel optimization problems are hierarchical optimization problems where the feasible
region of the so-called upper level problem is restricted by the graph of the solution set …

We are concerned with a problem in which a firm or franchise enters a market by locating
new facilities where there are existing facilities belonging to a competitor. The firm aims at …

This paper studies the economic desirability of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) parcel
delivery and its effect on e-retailer distribution networks while taking into account …