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Modeling And Optimization Of Resource Allocation In Supply Chain Management Problems, Qi Yuan
Modeling And Optimization Of Resource Allocation In Supply Chain Management Problems, Qi Yuan
Doctoral Dissertations
Resource allocation in supply chain management studies how to allocate the limited available resources economically/optimally to satisfy the demands. It is an important research area in operations research. This dissertation focuses on the modeling and optimization of three problems.
The first part of the dissertation investigates an important and unique problem in a supply chain distribution network, namely minimum cost network flow with variable lower bounds (MCNF-VLB). This type of network can be used to optimize the utilization of distribution channels (i.e., resources) in a large supply network, in order to minimize the total cost while satisfying flow conservation, lower …