This thesis explores the potential to unify three emerging disciplines: enterprise engineering, enterprise architecture and enterprise ontology. The current fragmentation that exists in literature on enterprise alignment ...

Mining is a hugely expensive process and unlike manufacturing is based on an ever diminishing resource. It requires a continuous infusion of capital to sustain production. A myriad of factors, from the volatility of the ...

This thesis presents a study of stochastic models of continuous review of inventory systems of perishable and non-perishable products, as well as inventory systems operating in random environment. It contains five chapters. ...

The Vehicle Routing Problem has been around for more than 50 years and has been of major interest to the operations research community. The VRP pose a complex problem with major benefits for the industry. In every supply ...

Meta-heuristics have already been used extensively for the successful solution of a wide range of real world problems. A few industrial engineering examples include inventory optimization, production scheduling, and vehicle ...

Criminal networks exploit vulnerabilities in the global financial system, using it as a conduit to launder criminal proceeds. Law enforcement agencies, financial institutions, and regulatory organizations often scrutinize ...

Electricity is critical to the economic and social development of humanity. Significant effort has been spent on the effective management thereof and with the growth of the renewable energy sector, traditionally regulated ...

Natural and man-made disasters are becoming more frequent in many countries throughout the world. Countries with inadequate infrastructure and poorly planned emergency logistics are subject to such events which may lead ...

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is methodology for relative performance measurement and has been extensively utilised over the past few decades. DEA is however sensitive to the presence of outliers in the data and can cause ...

This thesis aims to study and discover the main daily functional operations and sub-operations at typical container terminals, the terminal equipment deployed, container vessels and containerships, types of terminals, ...