Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber

Poznan University of Technology

In today’s times when big data is produced in almost all activities across various domains, this compendium presents a rich selection of recent advancements and applications of deep learning and optimization strategies in big data analytics through algorithms and models to a variety of domains in general and neuroscience in particular.

This book by Chunbing Bao, Jianping Li and Dengsheng Wu is predominantly concerned with risk matrix rating scheme design and risk aggregation. It deliberates on the new theories, new models, and new methods of risk analysis. It vividly explores the inter-relationships between risk, decision-making and society.

Nowadays, the viability of project scheduling has become increasingly important in recent research studies, especially during complex situations. In addition, Viable and Antifragile Project Management (VAPM) applies antifragility, resiliency, sustainability, and agility in different phases of planning and scheduling for complex networks and systems...

The cryptocurrency industry has changed the human life and accelerated financial exchange in this decade. Many investors want to invest in this industry and establish cryptocurrency farms. This research sets up a CryptoCurrency Farm Location (CCFL) as a facility location that supplies energy by Renewable Energy (RE). We presented a new robust optim...

Nowadays, the concepts of viability and sustainability in project scheduling by considering the complexity of networks have become increasingly important in recent research studies, especially during complex situations. In addition, Viable and Antifragile Project Management (VAPM) applies antifragility, resiliency, sustainability, and agility in di...

This compendium addresses original, innovative, creative as well as recreative scientific and practical results from smart optimization, classical and novel computing, artificial intelligence and operational research, renewable energy and sustainability, economics and business, city or rural planning, meta-heuristics and big-data analytics, life qu...

In our time in which ecological issues, the necessity to cover the energy needed in industries and households, and the new managerial concepts to be implemented remain at the forefront of Operational Research (OR), Energy and especially Renewable Energy has become an all-important field of study today. This is all the more true with Agriculture, wh...

Global warming and climate change become a sensitive issue worldwide, and many countries try to control the CO2 emissions by investigating in many projects. This study proposes a sustainable inventory model to reduce carbon emission. It is generally assumed that demand is increasing at starting of an inventory level and decreasing at ending for a p...

Dear Colleague, We have organized a joint Special Issue for the Conference "6th International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Optimization 2023" with Mathematics (IF = 2.592, JCR Q1; ISSN 2227-7390), entitled "Smart Computing, Optimization and Operations Research". Now we would like to invite you to contribute a full paper to the Special...

Computational intelligence for supply chains demonstrates the recent approaches implemented in developing novel computational intelligence techniques for the supply chain. It gives a comprehensive background on innovative, creative and state of the art applications of computational intelligence, focusing on supply chain sectors such as planning, in...

Discussions of the resiliency, sustainability, and agility of supply chains are important in the research and management of supply chains in these difficult times, considering the ongoing pandemic of COVID-19. A viable supply chain is often characterized by resiliency, sustainability, and agility in its network design. Resiliency is essential becau...

This article is a book-review done by me and Professor Willi Weber of the book written by Professor Richard C. Larson and titled - “Model Thinking for Everyday Life - Working Wonders with a Blank Sheet of Paper” and has been published in the December 2022 issue of the IFORS Newsletter

This issue includes three sections. Featured Articles, Opinion and Announcements. In the Featured Articles section, we have three articles: Dr. Velasquez presents a framework for the development of a new type of artificial intelligence, Dr. Palladas and Nikos Papakonstantinou highlight the advantages and disadvantages of digital quality managemen...

This book of Springer Nature is another proof of Springer’s outstanding and greatness on the lively interface of Smart Computational Optimization, Green ICT, Smart Intelligence and Machine Learning! It is a Master Piece of what our community of academics and experts can provide when an Interconnected Approach of Joint, Mutual and Meta Learning is s...

Antifragility is a property of systems that increase their capability to thrive due to stressors, shocks, volatility, noise, mistakes, faults, attacks, or failures. Therefore, antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragility gets better. Antifragile Supply chains (SC) benefit from...

Currently, the presence of data uncertainty and noise raises critical issues to be handled on both theoretical and computational grounds. Therefore, robustification and robust optimization have gained attention from theoretical and practical points of view for the establishment of a modeling framework in mathematical optimization to immunize soluti...

This article is a book-review done by me and Professor Willi Weber of the book titled - "Productivity-Concepts, Measurement, Aggregation and Decomposition" authored by Dr. Bert M. Balk and has been published in the IFORS Newsletter, September 2022.

The United Nations Humanitarian Response Depot (UNHRD) coordinated 515 different shipments (2,420,258 km in total) from six UNHRD depots to 88 different countries to provide a 27,343 m³ volume of products in 2018. The main purpose of the proposed study is to investigate the current distribution plan and identify the potential improvements using ope...

Urgency of fresh items is increasing day by day everywhere. During transportation over a long distance, the rate of deterioration is also increasing for perishable items, and if the items are not reaching at destination within a specified time, then they are no longer fresh. Based on the fact, the customers loose the quality and quantity of items;...

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE Written and edited by a global team of experts in the field, this groundbreaking new volume presents the concepts and fundamentals of using artificial intelligence in renewable energy and climate change, while also covering the practical applications that can be utilized across multipl...

EUROPT, the Continuous Optimization working group of EURO, celebrated its 20 years of activity in 2020. We trace the history of this working group by presenting the major milestones that have led to its current structure and organization and its major trademarks, such as the annual EUROPT workshop and the EUROPT Fellow recognition.

In many economic and Operations Research situations the social con- figuration of the organizations influences the potential possibilities of all groups of agents. An important group for an agent consists of the leader, the agent itself and all the intermediate agents that exist in the given hierarchy, which we call a peer group. In this study, pee...

The article is a book review of the book titled "Business Analytics -Descriptive, Predictive, Prescriptive” by Jeffrey D. Camm, James J. Cochran, Michael J. Fry, Jeffrey W. Ohlmann, Cengage Learning, Boston, MA 02210, USA, ISBN-978-0-357-13178-7, ISBN 10: 0357131797 / ISBN 13: 9780357131794 - OR-Analytics for Businesses of Tomorrow published in IFO...

Challenges connected with neuroscience and the use of machine learning to support analytical processes encompass more and more areas, thus supporting practitioners and managerial decisions. These changes can also be seen in the area of human resource management and support for decisions on key future spending on the remuneration of future employees...

This special issue of the Foundations of Computing and Decision Sciences, titled “Computational Performance Analysis based on Novel Intelligent Methods: Exploration and Future Directions in Production and Logistics”, is devoted to the application of Computational Performance Analysis (CPA) for real-life phenomena. The special issue and its editoria...

The Third E-Conference on Societal Complexity is a continuation of many other conferences on societal complexity from 1993 on. In 1993 the EWG Methodology of Societal Complexity (MSC) was a part of the International International Research Society on Methodology of Societal Complexity (MSC), founded and chaired by Prof. Dr. Dorien DeTombe. The Inter...

Advances of Artificial Intelligence in a Green Energy Environment reviews the new technologies in intelligent computing and AI that are reducing the dimension of data coverage worldwide. This handbook describes intelligent optimization algorithms that can be applied in various branches of energy engineering where uncertainty is a major concern. Inc...

Renewable energy and climate change are two of the most important and difficult issues facing the world today. The state of the art in these areas are changing rapidly, with new techniques and theories coming online seemingly every day. It is important for scientists, engineers, and other professionals working in these areas to stay abreast of deve...

We apply dynamic programming principle to discuss two optimal investment problems by using zero-sum and nonzero-sum stochastic game approaches in a continuous-time Markov regime-switching environment within the frame work of behavioral finance. We represent different states of an economy and, consequently, investors’ floating levels of psychologica...

AIMS AND SCOPE Discussions of the resiliency, sustainability, and agility of supply chains are important in the research and management of supply chains in these difficult times, considering the ongoing pandemic of COVID-19 [1]. Ivanov [2] proposed that a viable supply chain is characterized by resiliency, sustainability, and agility in its network...

Waste management involved in various fields of global ecosystem that provides several positive effects for green environment and sustainable development. We devise a multi-objective solid transportation model of waste management problem in agriculture field and forest department for urban or rural development. Starting to end point of the problem c...

Discussions of the resiliency, sustainability, and agility of supply chains are important in the research and management of supply chains. Ivanov proposed that a viable supply chain is characterized by these factors in its network design. Resiliency is essential as disruption and demand fluctuations are forced upon supply chains and the effects of...

Discussions of the antifragility, resiliency, sustainability, and agility of supply chains are important in the research and management of supply chains in these difficult times, considering the ongoing pandemic of COVID-19, summarized by Ivanov in 2020 who proposed, viable supply chains are characterized by resiliency, sustainability, and agility...

Rumours are a kind of information that has a impact on social life and economies, which spread quickly and widely, especially, via internet. Recently, the spread of information affects our daily lives due to the increasing number of social media users. Rumours are defined in social areas which are delivered by gossips, fake news, marketing, social...

A two-player discrete-time pursuit-evasion game is proposed under some playability conditions where each player’s course of action is determined by discrete-time speed controls in the real line. In this regard, two game models are provided as a one-target fashion in discretetime where the pursuer tries to build a proper control set to capture the t...

In the last few decades, worldwide atmosphere change has become out to be one of the most significant environmental issues. Carbon emissions and air pollution have motivated a need to design an effective and sustainable logistics network. As a result, environmental policies are included in the transportation system to re-consider and re-structure a...

Nowadays green retail practices are increasing in number. In this paper, an inventory model is formulated with retail investments in green operations including variable holding cost. In the proposed model, the demand rate depends on selling-price as well as green concern level. The main objective of the study is to find optimal replenishment time a...

Emerging cutting-edge methodologies of smart technology models are thoroughly investigated holistically reflected, comprehensively explained and meticulously illustrated in this book. Included are highly important fields of investigation and facilitation of original, innovative and novel real-life application of smart-technology models currently be...

Municipal solid waste (MSW) management is known as one of the most crucial activities in municipalities that requires large amounts of fixed/variable and investment costs. The operational processes of collection, transportation and disposal include the major part of these costs. On the other hand, greenhouse gas (GHG) emission as environmental aspe...

The topic of the future and development of human capital in the context of issues related to the digitization of the economy, including Industry 4.0, matching IT competencies to the needs of enterprises and the labor market is a growing challenge for public and training institutions in making decisions as to its development in the region. The avail...

The 4th edition of the popular as well as prestigious International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Optimization (ICO) 2021, in short ICO’2021, will be held along an “online” platform, herewith respecting the care for everyone as necessitated by the pandemic COVID-19. The physical conference is foreseen to be celebrated at G Hua Hin Resort...

In the contemporary edition, this book of conference proceedings encloses the original and innovative, creative and recreative scientific fields on optimization and optimal control, renewable energy and sustainability, artificial intelligence and operational research, economics and management, smart cities and rural planning, meta-heuristics and bi...

Aggregate production planning (APP) within a supply chain is known as one of the main activities in general planning of large and leading companies throughout the world. In the present study, a survey is conducted on the importance of three main factors: (1) human paradigm, (2) reliability, and (3) uncertainty in the APP. To do so, these three fact...

This study explores a Robust, Risk-aware, Resilient, and Sustainable Closed-Loop Supply Chain Network Design (3RSCLSCND) to tackle demand fluctuation like COVID-19 pandemic. A two-stage robust stochastic multiobjective programming model serves to express the proposed problems in formulae. The objective functions include minimising costs, CO 2 emiss...

In this work, we provide discrete optimality conditions of the optimal control problems of stochastic differential equations. Euler and Runge–Kutta methods are used for discretization. A Lagrange multiplier method for a discrete-time stochastic optimal control problem is formulated. The discrete adjoint process pn is obtained in terms of conditiona...

In this paper, a computational approach is suggested to obtain unknown space–time-dependent source term of the fractional diffusion equations. We assign a time-dependent source term and a linear space with the zero components which represent a series of boundary functions. In linear space, an energy border functional equation is obtained. After tha...

This special issue explores foundation methodologies, the latest directions, and emerging applications in a new generation of fuzzy systems related to human-explainable AI. The presented studies offer a snapshot of the latest advances in human-centric intelligence and interdisciplinary research, including computational behavioral science, learning...

We as the editors have hoped that this book will become one of the most helpful and valuable reference books of 2021 in fields where machine learning serves for clean energy and transportation industry. This book intends and has succeeded in encompassing emerging research on new and mod-ern, upcoming and future resources and means, algorithms and m...

In recent decades, attention and interest to clean energy has been growing exponentially, along with a continuously increasing concern about our natural environment and our health, our natural resources and our atmosphere. This development has especially been due to a decrease in both the cost of both installed capacity of converters and the cost o...

This issue includes three interesting articles and several important announcements. In the article section: Peter Whitehouse and Tony Bendell propose that the ISO 18404: 2015 Lean & Six Sigma international standard, whose development was led by BSI, provides an ideal framework for implementing such an approach for the United Kingdom and other publi...

Nowadays, using Blockchain Technology (BCT) is growing faster in each country. It is essential to apply BCT in Supply Chain Network Design (SCND) and is considered by the designer and manager of SC. This research indicates Viable Supply Chain Network Design (VSCND) by applying BCT. A new form of two-stage robust optimization is suggested. Facility...

From the book editors’ sides, this compendium has been hoped to serve as a most helpful reference work in 2021 on the areas of contemporary clean cosmopolitan and urban, regional, and rural, spatial-temporal and environmental, agricultural and industrial operational research and artificial intelligence, arts and sciences. After diligent work from t...

This study proposes a robust two-echelon periodic multi-commodity Location Routing Problem (LRP) by the use of RFID which is one of the most useful utilities in the field of Internet of Things (IoT). Moreover, uncertain demands are considered as the main part to design multi-level petroleum logistics networks. The different levels of this chain con...

Book of Abstracts Volume 38 Euro Conference Athens 2021, Stream Ethics in OR on Zoom Operational Research The stream Ethics in OR Operation Research and Ethics, Societal Complexity and Governance: The EWG OR and Ethics and Societal Complexity Since 2017 two Euro Working Groups (EWG), the EWG OR and Ethics and the previous EWG Methodology of Soc...

Some of the Power points belonging to the second E-Conference Societal Complexity Amsterdam 2021 conference organized by Prof. Dr. Dorien DeTombe and by Prof. Dr. Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber Methodology of Societal Complexity (MSC) is created as a part of the International International Research Society on Methodology of Societal Complexity (MSC), founde...

The second E-Conference Societal Complexity Amsterdam This conference organized by Prof. Dr. Dorien DeTombe and by Prof. Dr. Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber takes place in the times of the second year for the Lock-Down for SARS-CoV-2. This books contains the abstracts of the presentations on the conference and an article.

Medical waste management (MWM) is an important and necessary problem in the COVID-19 situation for treatment staff. When the number of infectious patients grows up, the amount of MWMs increases day by day. We present medical waste chain network design (MWCND) that contains health center (HC), waste segregation (WS), waste purchase contractor (WPC),...

During the last decade, and especially after the financial crisis, the problem of providing supplementary pensions to the retirees has attracted a lot of attention from official bodies, as well as private financial institutions, worldwide. In this effort, there are various possible solutions, one of which is provided by pension fund schemes. Essent...

In this paper, we extend obligation rules by using grey calculus. We introduce grey obligation rules for minimum grey cost spanning tree (mgcst) situations. It turns out that the grey obligation rule and the grey Bird rule are equal under suitable conditions. Further, we show that such rules are grey cost monotonic and induce population monotonic g...

Main objective of this book chapter is to explain design procedure of a mixed compression supersonic air intake. Conceptual design of air intake, modelling and simulation of supersonic flow, design of sub-components, design point of view, the objectives, constraints, phenomenon observed during the design period are mentioned. “Optimum” supersonic a...

We introduce the notion of strongly distributed multi-agent systems and present a uniform approach to incremental automated reasoning on them. The approach is based on systematic use of two logical reduction techniques: Feferman-Vaught reductions and syntactically defined translation schemes. The distributed systems are presented as logical structu...

Entrepreneurship is a complex issue, having an interdisciplinary character, which definitely constitutes a set of personality traits expressed in the entrepreneur’s attitude. This background is the basis for reflection and an to take an attempt to present the definition of entrepreneurship, which multitude in the literature review exists as the sci...

Desirable performance of sustainable pharmaceutical supply chain plays a key role in health attainment and performance evaluation is an essential element of effective pharmaceutical supply chain. Several models have been developed for performance evaluation of supply chains. The important point is that the model should be comprehensive and produces...

The special issue: “Numerical Techniques Meet with OR” of the Foundations of Computing and Decision Sciences consists of two parts which are of the main theme of numerical techniques and their applications in multi-disciplinary areas. The first part of this special issue was already collected in the FCDS Vol. 46, issue 1. In this second part of our...

This paper suggests a novel robust formulation designed for optimizing the parameters of the turning process in an uncertain environment for the first time. The aim is to achieve the lowest energy consumption and highest precision. With this aim, the current paper considers uncertain parameters, objective functions, and constraints in the offered m...

Highlights - New robust optimal portfolio problem for a DC pension scheme. - The effects of mortality and inflation are considered. - Closed form solutions in the case of the exponential utility function. -Numerical example that elucidates the role of robustness, mortality and inflation. Abstract: In the present work, we study the problem of optim...

Medical Waste Management (MWM) is an important and necessary problem in the COVID-19 situation for treatment staff. When the number of infectious patients grows up and amount of MWMs increases day by day. We present Medical Waste Chain Network Design (MWMCND) that contains Health Center (HC), Waste Segregation (WS), Waste Purchase Contractor (WPC)...

Nowadays, using renewable energy (RE) is faster growing by each country. The managerial and designer of supply chain network design (SCND) have to plan to apply RE in pillars of supply chain (SC). This research indicates resilience and sustainable SCND by considering RE (RSSCNDRE) for the first time. A two-stage new robust stochastic optimization i...

Nowadays, using renewable energy (RE) is faster growing by each country. The managerial and designer of supply chain network design (SCND) have to plan to apply RE in pillars of supply chain (SC). This research indicates resilience and sustainable SCND by considering RE (RSSCNDRE) for the first time. A two-stage new robust stochastic optimization i...

The topic of the future and development of human capital in the context of issues related to the digitization of the economy, including Industry 4.0, matching IT competencies to the needs of enterprises and the labor market is a growing challenge for public and training institutions in making decisions as to its development in the region. The avail...

Along with the increased competition in production and service areas, many organizations attempt to provide their products at a lower price and higher quality. On the other hand, consideration of environmental criteria in the conventional supplier selection methodologies is required for companies trying to promote green supply chain management (GSC...