Optimization in Sustainable Design and Location of Networked Facilities and Reverse Logistics
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Products and Services".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2023) | Viewed by 2075
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Interests: energy and environmental engineering systems; air pollution modeling, simulation anenergy and environmental engineering systems; air pollution modeling; planning and optimization; sustainable development of the petrochemical industry
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Interests: energy economics; energy and environment; transportation electrification; smart energy hubs; machine learning
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The quest for sustainable development requires integrating environmental, economic, and social welfare. Optimal sustainable design and the location of networked facilities and reverse logistics represent important pillars to achieve such integration. Different important factors, such as minimizing the performance costs and environmental pollution and increasing sustainability and reliability should be considered in decision making models. Moreover, critical uncertainties characteristic to the reverse logistics operations should be taken into account in sustainability studies. Furthermore, the risk associated with these uncertain parameters should be managed to reduce the related risk in the uncertain environment, and the flexibility of designed systems should be increased under different conditions. This Special Issue provides an opportunity for researchers to present new optimization models in the sustainable design and location of networked facilities and reverse logistics, to decrease performance cost and environmental pollution and increase sustainability and reliability.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Optimization models for sustainable reverse logistics network design
- Reverse logistics network design for end-of -life vehicles
- Network optimization models in waste reverse supply chains
- Network optimization models in energy supply chains
- Reverse logistics network design for sustainable treatment of multi-sourced waste
- Sustainable supply chain network design
- Sustainable community design
- Multi-period planning horizon for sustainable development
- Optimal location of new industries in existing industrial areas
- Combined facility location and network design
- Optimization in decentralized production systems
Prof. Dr. Ali Elkamel
Dr. Ali Ahmadian
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- optimization in sustainable design
- location of networked facilities
- reverse logistics
- urban underground logistics network
- multi-objective optimization
- cost and pollution minimization
- increasing the sustainability and reliability
- uncertainty and risk management
- environmental regulations
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