Florian Golm

Application of genetic algorithms for the design of large-scale reverse logistic networks in Europe's automotive industry

After providing a brief overview on Europes legislative situation with regard to the demanded recovering and recycling of end-of-life vehicles the paper characterizes the specifications of a modeling approach describing the design of a recycling network including a large variety of different cooperating actors set at diverse positions on a reverse supply-chain. It advances with a discussion of requirements a suitable optimization approach needs to fulfil. Then it proceeds by addressing the optimization approach that has been chosen and it concludes by providing results for an ideal network design.

Virtual production network configuration: ACS-Approach and tools

Interest in global businesses and such a new form of co-operation as Virtual Production Network (VPNet) is growing along with increasing use of Internet-based engineering and management technologies, and the trend towards VPNet data & knowledge management. Affordable Cost Structure approach (ACS-approach) for VPNet configuration is a new approach to configuration of global production network in order to improve investment efficiency over total facility life-time. A kernel of this approach is a distributed multi-level constraint satisfaction technology based on a shared domain knowledge model “product — process — resources”. The paper discusses a generic methodology and a research prototype of a distributed decision support system “ProCon” for VPNet configuration.

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