Mohammad Hossein Sadat Hosseini Khajouei; Nazanin Pilevari; Reza Radfar; Ali Mohtashami
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In recent decades, researchers are turning to the potential of ABMs to study complex phenomena. Due to intrinsic interconnections, structural interactions and inter-dependencies, individual variations, and communications of various components, supply chain network should be accordingly treated as a complex ...
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In recent decades, researchers are turning to the potential of ABMs to study complex phenomena. Due to intrinsic interconnections, structural interactions and inter-dependencies, individual variations, and communications of various components, supply chain network should be accordingly treated as a complex adaptive system. ABM is dominant tool exploring the emergent behavior of supply chain network with numerous interactive agents. This paper aims to conduct a systematic literature review on the agent-based modeling in the concepts of supply chain and various fields of research. Using reputable databases, combining intended keywords and applying filters based on restrictions and indicators, a total of 123 relevant articles are selected from the valid journals and conferences in year 2010-2019, and 17 subjects in association with supply chain management and 23 subjects related to other fields are presented. Moreover, a brief history and the definition of the three basic areas including complex systems, complex adaptive system and agent-based modeling are provided. The main objective is to provide a perspective based on agent-based modeling and complex adaptive systems for researchers in different sciences and especially supply chain researchers, who are not sufficiently familiar with the philosophy and applications of these approaches.
Mohammad Hossein Sadat Hosseini Khajouei; Nazanin Pilevari
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Nowadays, environmental deterioration is one of the most noticeable issues in logistics, so that the organizations are required to control the triggers of environmental contaminations generation. One of the most effective steps in addressing this term is to design transportation network considering CO2 ...
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Nowadays, environmental deterioration is one of the most noticeable issues in logistics, so that the organizations are required to control the triggers of environmental contaminations generation. One of the most effective steps in addressing this term is to design transportation network considering CO2 emission limitation. In this paper, a vehicle routing problem with simultaneous pickup and delivery with heterogeneous fleet and environmental measurement consideration is proposed. Introduced two objectives mathematical modeling, with the help of the weighted LP metric method has become to a combined dimensionless objective. The formulated optimization problem is solved in small dimensions using General Algebraic Modelling System (GAMS) approach and specifically BARON solver respect to the nature of the mathematical equations. The results obtained from simulations are discussed to confirm the effectiveness of the proposed method in dealing with the desired example. Because of NP-hardness, Discrete Invasive Weed Optimization (DIWO) meta-heuristic algorithm is applied.