• Distribution-service network design: An agent-based approach 

      Afshari, Hamid; McLeod, Robert D.; ElMekkawy, Tarek; Peng, Qingjin ( Elsevier , 2014 , Conference Paper)
      Decisions to locate facilities within product-service network should satisfy all stakeholders' objective in supply chains. To provide solutions for such strategic decisions, many method and approaches have been applied ...
    • Facility location decisions within integrated forward/reverse logistics under uncertainty 

      Ashfari, Hamid; Sharifi, Masoud; ElMekkawy, Tarek Y.; Peng, Qingjin ( Elsevier B.V. , 2014 , Conference Paper)
      In this paper, a stochastic mixed integer linear programming (SMILP) model is proposed to optimize the location and size of facilities and service centres in integrated forward and reverse streams under uncertainty. The ...