HAPPy to Control: A Heuristic And Predictive Policy to Control Large Urban Drainage Systems

Model Predictive Control (MPC) of Urban Drainage Systems (UDS) has been established as a cost-effective method to reduce pollution. However, the operation of large UDS (containing over 20 actuators) can only be optimized by oversimplifying the UDS dynamics, potentially leading to a decrease in performance and reduction in users' trust, thus...

The impact on the final delivery schedule of different procedures that handle arriving customers during route optimization in a real-time Dynamic Time Slot Management system

Dynamic Time Slot Management (DTSM) is a system often used in online retail to manage the delivery of goods to customers. With DTSM customers arrive over time and place orders. They get presented with a set of time slots and the customer picks the time slot in which he wants the goods to be delivered to his home. A DTSM system creates a time...

Vertical Collaboration in a Two-Level Supply Chain: An Agent-Based Modeling Approach

Collaboration in the supply chain is nowadays seen in the scientific community as the “next best thing” in supply chain optimization (Ballot, 2015; Barratt & Oliveira, 2001; Barratt, 2004; Ireland & Bruce, 2000). Although widely investigated and often mentioned in literature, the concept of supply chain collaboration is not precisely defined ...

Dynamic Water-System Control - Design and Operation of Regional Water-Resources Systems

An hierarchic multi-suppliers computer network of a research laboratory with two settlements

For the aerospace laboratory NLR in the Netherlands the considerations are discussed that formed the basis of along-term plan to realize an optimal computer network. In the optimization process up to now the laboratory switched from a situation in which in each of both settlements one central close shop computer centre was available to a...