Considered the wireless sensor network clustering structure, a new big data collecting method based on compressive sensing is proposed. The collection process is as follows: in the cluster, the sink node sets the corresponding seed vector based on…
Route optimization has been a research topic for many years in the maritime industry and it constitutes one of the key components to improving energy efficiency and sustainability in ship operations. This paper deals with the challenge of estimating…
Clustering plays a fundamental task in the process of data mining, which remains more demanding due to the ever-increasing dimension of accessible datasets. Big data is considered more populous as it has the ability to handle various sources and…
Until now, structured and unstructured networks have been considered in absentia of each other. We believe that next-generation P2P services would require both structured and unstructured algorithms, and that it therefore makes sense to consider a…
WSNs are multihop networks, which depend on the intermediate nodes to relay the data packet to the destination. These nodes are equipped with lesser memory, limited battery power, little computation capability, small range of communication and need a…
Distribution service restoration (DSR) is critical for improving the resilience and reliability of modern distribution systems by strategically and sequentially energizing the system components and customer loads. Restoring electricity service to…
Nowadays, the new trend of global economy has driven the business strategy from the local to the global supply chain optimization. The comprehensive logistics solutions are critical to integrate supply chain management in the global landscape. We…
The maritime oil tanker routing and scheduling problem is known to the literature since before 1950. In the presented problem, oil tankers transport crude oil from supply points to demand locations around the globe. The objective is to find ship…
The exponential increase in the number of connected devices in the network led to a paradigm shift from the traditional host-centric IP-based network architecture to a content-based paradigm, which eliminates the address-content bindings in…
1As people's dependence on the Internet increases, traditional network architectures with rigid characteristics will gradually fail to meet all demands. It has higher flexibility and provides a convenient platform for technologies and concepts such…
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are mainly data-driven networks adopted to improve the Internet of Things (IoT) in terms of data throughput, energy efficiency, and self-management. Improving the data lifespan of WSN impacts the performance of the…
With the extensive electrification introduced into the shipboard power systems, the navigation routine has become more important in an electric propulsion and solar power integrated ships since various sailing paths and speeds will lead to different…
Logistics has gained great attentions with the prosperous development of e-commerce, which is often seen as the classic optimal vehicle routing problem. Meanwhile, electric vehicle (EV) has been widely used in logistic fleet to curb the emission of…
The main aim of the paper is to develop a shared shuttle-based system in order to reduce congestion in cities and thereby reduce carbon dioxide emissions. There are multiple modules in this system but to summarize there exist two databases one…
Vehicular Adhoc Networks (VANETs) are used for efficient communication among the vehicles to vehicle (V2V) infrastructure. Currently, VANETs are facing node management, security, and routing problems in V2V communication. Intelligent transportation…
Traditional ground wireless communication networks cannot provide high-quality services for artificial intelligence (AI) applications such as intelligent transportation systems (ITS) due to deployment, coverage and capacity issues. The…
This paper endeavors to explore the sustainable container shipping problem considering fuel bunker management and provide adequate recovery policies for countering disruption within maritime transportation. This paper addresses the environmental…
In this paper, we propose an integrated inventory model with transportation of a single-vendor multi-buyer supply chain coordination where stochastic demand is considered. We discuss the synchronized cycles model (SSYN) coordination policy, in which…
The exponential increase in the number of connected devices in the network led to a paradigm shift from the traditional host-centric IP-based network architecture to a content-based paradigm, which eliminates the address-content bindings in…
Hazardous materials transportation is risky and an accident at any point of route can lead to severe consequences including fatalities, injuries, and environmental degradation. Routing hazardous materials is one of the main strategies to reduce the…
The maritime oil tanker routing and scheduling problem is known to the literature since before 1950. In the presented problem, oil tankers transport crude oil from supply points to demand locations around the globe. The objective is to find ship…
Maritime transportation, the primary mode for intercontinental movement of crude oil, accounts for 1.7billion tons annually – bulk of which are carried via a fleet of large crude oil tankers. Although spectacular episodes such as Exxon Valdez…
This paper provides a comprehensive review in the domain of hazardous material transportation from an Operational Research point of view. The paper's focus lies on hazmat routing, routing-scheduling, and network design problems. The objective of this…
In recent years, the range of sensing technologies has prolonged rapidly, whereas the sensing devices are getting cheaper day by day. This has led to a fast expansion in condition monitoring of different systems, structures, vehicles, and machinery…
Production optimization of gas-lifted oil wells with routing and pressure constraints is a complex problem, which has attracted the interest of engineers and scientists alike. To this end, a mixed-integer nonlinear model is developed to automatically…
Wireless sensor networks have a vast amount of applications including environmental monitoring, military, ecology, agriculture, inventory control, robotics and health care. This paper focuses on the area of monitoring and protection of oil and gas…
Wireless sensor networks have a vast amount of applications including environmental monitoring, military, ecology, agriculture, inventory control, robotics and health care. This paper focuses on the area of monitoring, and protection of oil, gas, and…
In recent years, wireless mesh network (WMN) has attracted researchers due to its wide coverage of network area. Unlike linear topology network, WMN eliminates the dead node issue which known to influence the packet reachability. Hence, the…
Ad hoc and sensor networks is a new area of research which is rapidly growing due to the development of new technologies in inexpensive sensors. These electronic devices have increased capabilities in processing speed, memory, communication and…
The near-sea off-shore oil extraction and transportation system use heterogeneous fleets to transfer crude oil from the floating production storage and offloading to the land-based oil storage port. Based on the characteristics of this system, the…
Nowadays, the new trend of global economy has driven the business strategy from the local to the global supply chain optimization. The comprehensive logistics solutions are critical to integrate supply chain management in the global landscape. We…
As the population in Indonesia grows, the need of energy in forms of fuel, electricity, asphalt, or wax which were distilled through the refinery process of crude oil, has been consistently increasing for the past several years. In addition, with the…
Hazardous materials transportation is risky and an accident at any point of route can lead to severe consequences including fatalities, injuries, and environmental degradation. Routing hazardous materials is one of the main strategies to reduce the…
We present some proposals to approximately solve a period vehicle routing problem used to model the extraction of oil from a set of onshore oil wells in Brazil. This problem differs from the well-known period vehicle routing problem in several…
Over the last years various extensions of the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP), considering complicated constraints encountered in the real-life, has been studied. These extensions are often coined as rich VRP. In this work, we tackle a rich VRP namely…
Physical distribution is a critical activity for companies because it defines successful customer service. This article discusses a case study of a liquefied gas distributor with respect to improving customer service and reducing delivery costs. The…
The off-line-determined schedule of deliveries of fuel to filling stations often looses its efficiency because of delays owing to traffic and weather conditions, the receiving of new and urgent orders, and the temporary unavailability of some tank…
The U.S. Department of Energy and Transportation considers pipeline security and the timely containment of leaks as a top priority for the oil and natural gas industry. However, despite significant investment in network sensing and maintenance,…
This paper proposes a multi-objective two-depot traveling salesman problem with uncertain fleet size (MTTSP), which determines optimal distribution route for hazardous materials (hazmat). It actually aims to identify nondominated paths from two given…
Vessel scheduling for an industrial crude oil exploration operation, coming under the category of vehicle routing problem (VRP), is solved under multiobjective optimization framework. Objectives under consideration are minimization of total time,…
In recent years, for the investigation of traffic-flow dynamics on complex networks, many existing works have focused on improving the networks resilience of congestion to enhance the transport capacity of the networks. The study in this direction…
This paper addresses a ship inventory routing and scheduling problem faced by an oil company serving many locations. The problem involves the delivery of multiple products from loading to unloading ports by using heterogeneous types of limited…
This paper discusses a new practical variant of the vehicle routing problem with time windows (VRPTW), which originated from the regional transportation planning for oil products at a China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) branch in a northwest…
The paper is to develop the applicability of algorithms when programming vehicles and routes in supply logistics of automobile accessories. Brand and Bound, Genetic Algorithm, Routing First - Cluster Second, and their combination are employed to…
With the extensive electrification introduced into the shipboard power systems, the navigation routine has become more important in an electric propulsion and solar power integrated ships since various sailing paths and speeds will lead to different…
In this paper, we address the problem of procurement related to the supply of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG). We are interested in the issue of shipping large quantities of bulk gas (butane and propane) from storage terminals to filling stations…
The maritime oil tanker routing and scheduling problem is known to the literature since before 1950. In the presented problem, oil tankers transport crude oil from supply points to demand locations around the globe. The objective is to find ship…
Maritime transportation, the primary mode for intercontinental movement of crude oil, accounts for 1.7billion tons annually – bulk of which are carried via a fleet of large crude oil tankers. Although spectacular episodes such as Exxon Valdez…