2013, vol. 6, núm. 4

Summary

  • Integrated production planning and control: a multi-objective optimization model 

    Wang, Cheng; Liu, Xiao-Bing Liu (School of Industrial and Aeronautic Engineering of Terrassa (ETSEIAT). Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), 2013-12)
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    Purpose: Production planning and control has crucial impact on the production and business activities of enterprise. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is the most popular resources planning and management system, however ...

  • Building evacuation: principles for the analysis of basic structures through dynamic flow networks 

    Casadesús Pursals, Salvador; Garriga Garzón, Federico (School of Industrial and Aeronautic Engineering of Terrassa (ETSEIAT). Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), 2013-12)
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    Purpose: The main purpose of this paper is to perform an analysis of the factors determining the architectural configuration of buildings for the mobility of people, using dynamic flow networks and considering group formation ...

  • Developing TOPSIS method using statistical normalization for selecting knowledge management strategies 

    Sarraf, Amin Zadeh; Mohaghar, Ali; Bazargani, Hossein (School of Industrial and Aeronautic Engineering of Terrassa (ETSEIAT). Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), 2013-12)
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    Purpose: Numerous companies are expecting their knowledge management (KM) to be performed effectively in order to leverage and transform the knowledge into competitive advantages. However, here raises a critical issue of ...

  • The dynamic characteristics and influencing factors of debt structure of the public companies in China 

    Piao, Zhefan; Feng, Xiaoqi (School of Industrial and Aeronautic Engineering of Terrassa (ETSEIAT). Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), 2013-12)
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    Design/methodology/approach: Learned from Leary (2009), Konstantinos Voutsinas and Richard A.Werner (2011), this study designs a model of debt maturity structure with an unbalanced panel data set. It consists of 1352 Chinese ...

  • A novel optimization method on logistics operation for warehouse & port enterprises based on game theory 

    Li, Junyang; Zhu, Xiaomin; Zhang, Runtong (School of Industrial and Aeronautic Engineering of Terrassa (ETSEIAT). Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), 2013-12)
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    Purpose: The following investigation aims to deal with the competitive relationship among different warehouses & ports in the same company. Design/methodology/approach: In this paper, Game Theory is used in carrying out ...

  • A new hybrid GA-PSO method for solving multi-period inventory routing problem with considering financial decisions 

    Rabbani, Masoud; Baghersad, Milad; Jafari, Ruholla (School of Industrial and Aeronautic Engineering of Terrassa (ETSEIAT). Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), 2013-12)
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    Integration of various logistical components in supply chain management, such as transportation, inventory control and facility location are becoming common practice to avoid sub-optimization in nowadays’ competitive ...

  • Identifying and ranking of strategies to implement green supply chain management in Indian manufacturing industry using Analytical Hierarchy Process 

    Luthra, Sunil; Garg, Dixit; Haleem, Abid (School of Industrial and Aeronautic Engineering of Terrassa (ETSEIAT). Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), 2013-12)
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    Purpose – The study aims to identify and rank the major strategies that help achieve successful implementation of Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM) in Indian manufacturing industry. Design/methodology/approach – ...

  • Research on the application of the internet of things in reverse logistics information management 

    Gu, Yuexia; Liu, Qingqi (School of Industrial and Aeronautic Engineering of Terrassa (ETSEIAT). Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), 2013-12)
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    Objective: Combined the current situation with the development trend of reverse logistics, the article focus on the research of Internet of Things application in the reverse logistics information management, starts with ...

  • Study of large shareholders’ behavior after non-tradable shares reform: A perspective of related party transactions 

    Zhang, Hongbo; Xia, Qing (School of Industrial and Aeronautic Engineering of Terrassa (ETSEIAT). Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), 2013-12)
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    Purpose: This paper explores the behavior choice of large shareholders in the related party transactions which occur between the large shareholders and listed companies by using the data of shares from 2007 to 2010. D ...

  • On the analysis of building a public information platform based on e-Commerce for coal logistics 

    Qiu, Zeguo (School of Industrial and Aeronautic Engineering of Terrassa (ETSEIAT). Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), 2013-12)
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    Purpose: Putting forward the concept and features of the public information platform for coal logistics based on electronic commerce, as well as the requirements of upper and lower intersections of the coal supply chain. ...

  • Implementing lean manufacturing system: ISM approach 

    Kumar, Naveen; Kumar, Sanjay; Haleem, Abid; Gahlot, Pardeep (School of Industrial and Aeronautic Engineering of Terrassa (ETSEIAT). Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), 2013-12)
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    Purpose: Lean Manufacturing System has emerged as an important area of research in Indian context. The requirement of Lean Manufacturing has increased due to defects in products (semi finished and finished) and subsequent ...

  • Multiple depots vehicle routing based on the ant colony with the genetic algorithm 

    Liu, ChunYing; Yu, Jijiang (School of Industrial and Aeronautic Engineering of Terrassa (ETSEIAT). Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), 2013-12)
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    Purpose: the distribution routing plans of multi-depots vehicle scheduling problem will increase exponentially along with the adding of customers. So, it becomes an important studying trend to solve the vehicle scheduling ...

  • A new approach for solving capacitated lot sizing and scheduling problem with sequence and period-dependent setup costs 

    Memmi, Imen Chaieb; Laaroussi, Sondes Hammami (School of Industrial and Aeronautic Engineering of Terrassa (ETSEIAT). Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), 2013-12)
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    Purpose: We aim to examine the capacitated multi-item lot sizing problem which is a typical example of a large bucket model, where many different items can be produced on the same machine in one time period. We propose a ...

  • Ports: definition and study of types, sizes and business models 

    Roa Perera, Iván; Peña, Yessica; Amante García, Beatriz; Goretti, María (School of Industrial and Aeronautic Engineering of Terrassa (ETSEIAT). Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), 2013-12)
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    Purpose: In the world today there are thousands of port facilities of different types and sizes, competing to capture some market share of freight by sea, mainly. This article aims to determine the type of port and the ...

  • Knowledge collaborative incentive based on inter-organizational cooperative innovation of project-based supply chain 

    Wu, Guangdong (School of Industrial and Aeronautic Engineering of Terrassa (ETSEIAT). Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), 2013-12)
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    Purpose: Within project-based supply chain inter-organizational cooperative innovation, the achievement of project value-adding reflects by factors such as project-based organizational effect level, the relationship between ...

  • Study of collaborative management of supply chain in an IT environment 

    Ding, Yanping (School of Industrial and Aeronautic Engineering of Terrassa (ETSEIAT). Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), 2013-12)
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    Purpose: This paper identifies collaborative management of supply chain in an IT environment as the object of study. It offers discussion on the current situation and future development of supply chain management, the basic ...

  • The transport performance evaluation system building of logistics enterprises 

    Wang, Xueli; Chen, Yu; Zhang, Li (School of Industrial and Aeronautic Engineering of Terrassa (ETSEIAT). Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), 2013-12)
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    Purpose: modern logistics has a significant role in today’s society, logistics cost accounts for 35% to 50% of total logistics costs, so it’s great significance to improve the transport performance of logistics ...

  • Relationship between islamic human resources management (IHRM) practices and trust: an empirical study 

    Rahman, Nik Mutasim Nik Ab; Alias, Mohamad Adnan; Shahid, Sharmin; Hamid, Mohamad Abdul; Alam, Syed Shah (School of Industrial and Aeronautic Engineering of Terrassa (ETSEIAT). Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), 2013-12)
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    Purpose: The purpose of this study is to explore and examines the theoretical frameworks of Islamic human resource management practices and trust in organization. Additionally, to investigate the extent to which Islamic ...

  • An integrated approach for solving a MCDM problem, Combination of Entropy Fuzzy and F-PROMETHEE techniques 

    Shahmardan, Amin; Zadeh, Mohammad Hendijani (School of Industrial and Aeronautic Engineering of Terrassa (ETSEIAT). Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), 2013-12)
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    Purpose: The intention of this paper is the presentation of a new integrated approach for solving a multi attribute decision making problem by the use of Entropy Fuzzy and F- PROMETHEE (fuzzy preference ranking method for ...

  • Supply chain management in view of climate change: an overview of possible impacts and the road ahead 

    Dasaklis, Thomas K.; Pappis, Costas P. (School of Industrial and Aeronautic Engineering of Terrassa (ETSEIAT). Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), 2013-12)
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    Purpose: The paper aims to provide a general overview of the impacts of climate change upon supply chains and to analyze the implications of climate change for supply chain management in terms of strategic and operational ...

  • A container dispatching system for river ports based on distributed intelligent agent 

    Zeng, Jingyuan; Zhang, Zhenji; Guan, Xiaolan; Gao, Ruize (School of Industrial and Aeronautic Engineering of Terrassa (ETSEIAT). Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), 2013-12)
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    With the expansion of business scope of river ports, it demands higher loading and unloading efficiency. Automation, informatization and intelligentization become the only way to development of river ports. This paper ...

  • Coordination mechanism of SaaS service supply chain: based on compensation contracts 

    Guo, Yanli; Chen, Jianbin; Guo, Hailing; Lu, Xinman (School of Industrial and Aeronautic Engineering of Terrassa (ETSEIAT). Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), 2013-12)
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    Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to build new contracts theories of SaaS service supply chain. Software as a Service (SaaS) has become a hot topic in this industry . Compared with traditional manufacturing supply chain ...

  • Job stress with supervisor’s social support as a determinant of work Intrusion on family conflict 

    Ismail, Azman; Suhaimi, Fara Farihana; Bakar, Rizal Abu; Alam, Syed Shah (School of Industrial and Aeronautic Engineering of Terrassa (ETSEIAT). Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), 2013-12)
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    Purpose: The primary objective of this study is to examine the influence of supervisor’s social support in the correlation between job stress and work intrusion on family conflict. Design/methodology/approach: A survey ...

  • Passenger sharing of the high-speed railway from sensitivity analysis caused by price and run-time based on the multi-agent system 

    Ning, Ma; Ge, Yin; Yang, Zuo (School of Industrial and Aeronautic Engineering of Terrassa (ETSEIAT). Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), 2013-12)
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    Purpose: Nowadays, governments around the world are active in constructing the high-speed railway. Therefore, it is significant to make research on this increasingly prevalent transport. Design/methodology/approach: In ...

  • Service requirement for terminal delivery: an empirical study from the perspective of online shoppers 

    Xu, Junjie; Jiang, Ling; Li, Yiliang (School of Industrial and Aeronautic Engineering of Terrassa (ETSEIAT). Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), 2013-12)
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    To investigate customer’s service requirement for parcel delivery, combining with theoretical analysis and empirical test, a measuring model of customer service requirement was proposed for terminal delivery. Based on ...

  • The relationship among customer demand, competitive strategy and manufacturing system functional objectives 

    Xu, Wei; Zhang, Qingshan; Ma, Jun (School of Industrial and Aeronautic Engineering of Terrassa (ETSEIAT). Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), 2013-12)
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    Purpose: To ascertain the relationship between the operation system function goal decision making and customer demand and competition strategy, can better discover and integrate all available resources (including important ...