In order to improve the profits of electricity utility company (EUC) and gas utility company
(GUC) and reduce the electricity and heat cost of users, an energy trading and pricing …

Purpose The huge demand for fresh goods has stimulated lots of research on the perishable
food supply chain. The characteristics of perishable food and the cross-regional …

A large part of the electric power demand of commercial ports is particularly flexible.
Nowadays, the most significant flexible loads of a commercial port are the refrigerated …

Sustainability is increasingly viewed as a desired goal of social development. The logistics
industry without exception is aware of the importance of sustainable development. To …

Industrial parks are regarded as a possible fashion to reduce the manufacturing costs and
increase the efficiency by sharing cost-effective infrastructure and communal services …

Purpose–Supply chain security has been recognized as an important part of managing
business risks. The purpose of this paper is to propose a methodology with systematic …

Abstract Industrial Clusters (ICs) are defined as geographically adjacent interconnected
companies working together within the same commercial section which enjoy unusual …

Abstract The fifth-generation (5G) wireless communication networks are expected to play an
essential role in the transformation of vertical industries. Among many exciting applications …

Serving as a potential solution for seaport congestion and capacity limitation, dry port
development is increasingly popular in the freight transport industry. This paper pioneers the …

Purpose In this paper, a multi-objective multi-echelon supply-distribution model is proposed
to optimize interactions of entities located within an Industrial Cluster (IC) including small …