scholarly journals A Simheuristic Algorithm for Solving the Stochastic Omnichannel Vehicle Routing Problem with Pick-up and Delivery

Algorithms ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 237
Author(s):  
Leandro do C. Martins ◽  
Christopher Bayliss ◽  
Pedro J. Copado-Méndez ◽  
Javier Panadero ◽  
Angel A. Juan
Keyword(s):  
Vehicle Routing ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Vehicle Routing Problem ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Routing Problem ◽  
Stochastic Version ◽  
Constructive Heuristic ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Np Hardness

Advances in information and communication technologies have made possible the emergence of new shopping channels. The so-called ‘omnichannel’ retailing mode allows customers to shop for products online and receive them at home. This paper focuses on the omnichannel delivery concept for the retailing industry, which addresses the replenishment of a set of retail stores and the direct shipment of the products to customers within an integrated vehicle routing formulation. Due to its NP-Hardness, a constructive heuristic, which is extended into a biased-randomized heuristic and which is embedded into a multi-start procedure, is introduced for solving the large-sized instances of the problem. Next, the problem is enriched by considering a more realistic scenario in which travel times are modeled as random variables. For dealing with the stochastic version of the problem, a simheuristic algorithm is proposed. A series of computational experiments contribute to illustrate how our simheuristic can provide reliable and low-cost solutions under uncertain conditions.

scholarly journals E-CONVERSE AN AFFORDABLE TOUCH SCREEN SOLUTION TO INTRIGUE DINING EXPERIENCE

2016 ◽  
pp. 21-25
Author(s):  
S. R. PATIL ◽  
SNEHAL SALUNKHE ◽  
NIKITA KULKARNI ◽  
PRIYANKA SAVANT
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Communication ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Touch Screen ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
Design And Implementation ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Basic Level

ample efforts have been taken in restaurant sector to intrigue the dining experience. Several information and communication technologies have been adopted earlier such as PDA; wireless communication technologies etc.These technologies provide a simple but powerful infrastructure. This paper highlights the limitations of the existing technologies and proposed the E-CONVERSE, which focuses on low cost touch-screen development to enhance the dining experience. In this paper we discuss the design and implementation of a low cost, customizable touch screen. To ensure the security of the system some security strategies are discussed. Basic level testing reveals that proposed system has potential for practical implementation and can overcome several drawbacks of existing system.

scholarly journals Monitoring and Support for Elderly People Using LoRa Communication Technologies: IoT Concepts and Applications

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 206
Author(s):  
José Paulo Lousado ◽  
Sandra Antunes
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Health Condition ◽  
World Health ◽  
Security Forces ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Health Organization

The pandemic declared by the World Health Organization due to the SARS-CoV-2 virus (COVID-19) awakened us to a reality that most of us were previously unaware of—isolation, confinement and the massive use of information and communication technologies, as well as increased knowledge of the difficulties and limitations of their use. This article focuses on the rapid implementation of low-cost technologies, which allow us to answer a fundamental question: how can near real-time monitoring and follow-up of the elderly and their health conditions, as well as their homes, especially for those living in isolated and remote areas, be provided within their care and protect them from risky events? The system proposed here as a proof of concept uses low-cost devices for communication and data processing, supported by Long-Range (LoRa) technology and connection to The Things Network, incorporating various sensors, both personal and in the residence, allowing family members, neighbors and authorized entities, including security forces, to have access to the health condition of system users and the habitability of their homes, as well as their urgent needs, thus evidencing that it is possible, using low-cost systems, to implement sensor networks for monitoring the elderly using the LoRa gateway and other support infrastructures.

scholarly journals An IoT-Aware Architecture for Collecting and Managing Data Related to Elderly Behavior

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aitor Almeida ◽  
Alessandro Fiore ◽  
Luca Mainetti ◽  
Ruben Mulero ◽  
Luigi Patrono ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
World Population ◽  
Aged People ◽  
Clinical Procedures ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Data Capturing ◽  
Cognitive Diseases

The world population will be made up of a growing number of elderly people in the near future. Aged people are characterized by some physical and cognitive diseases, like mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and frailty, that, if not timely diagnosed, could turn into more severe diseases, like Alzheimer disease, thus implying high costs for treatments and cares. Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) enabling the Internet of Things (IoT) can be adopted to create frameworks for monitoring elderly behavior which, alongside normal clinical procedures, can help geriatricians to early detect behavioral changes related to such pathologies and to provide customized interventions. As part of the City4Age project, this work describes a novel approach for collecting and managing data about elderly behavior during their normal activities. The data capturing layer is an unobtrusive and low-cost sensing infrastructure abstracting the heterogeneity of physical devices, while the data management layer easily manages the huge quantity of sensed data, giving them semantic meaning and fostering data shareability. This work provides a functional validation of the proposed architecture and introduces how the data it manages can be used by the whole City4Age platform to early identify risks related to MCI/frailty and promptly intervene.

scholarly journals GeoSense: A Multimode Information and Communication System

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Sudharsan ◽  
J. Adinarayana ◽  
A. K. Tripathy ◽  
S. Ninomiya ◽  
M. Hirafuji ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Precision Agriculture ◽  
Communication Systems ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Cloud Service ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Network Location ◽  
Open Hardware ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
Information And Communication

Recent technological developments allowed to envision the low-power (solar power) and low-cost (open hardware) sensor devices (Agrisens/FieldServer/Flux Tower/FieldTwitter) with multimode (ZigBee/WiFi/3G/WebGIS) information and communication technologies (ICTs), a model in which is christened as GeoSense. Integrating these multimode and multi-level communication systems with distributed ambient sensory network location-based service (LBS) is a challenging task, which could be a potential technology for monitoring various natural phenomena. This integrated model is introduced to provide and assist the rural stakeholders with real-time decision support system (DSS) with dynamic information and modeling services for precision agriculture through GeoSense cloud service. This GeoSense research has been experimented in semiarid tropics in India under Indo-Japan initiative on multi-disciplinary ICT program.

Recreating the Place

2015 ◽  
pp. 290-301
Author(s):  
Tzung-De Lin
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Tourism Research ◽  
Video Sharing ◽  
Tourism Promotion ◽  
Technological Tools ◽  
Domestic Tourism ◽  
Information And Communication

The development and uptake of information and communication technologies have provided tourism industries innovative opportunities to interact with potential tourists. Instead of focusing on the development and implementation of new technological tools with which much E-tourism research is concerned, this paper examines a case of tourism promotion in Japan made possible by the spread of video-sharing websites. The case shows a nontraditional, non-intuitive strategy. It reaches potential tourists and gains nationwide visibility at a relatively low cost by producing videos featuring an unappealing character who symbolizes the destination: Hakodate City. This strategy of promoting domestic tourism was preceded by other two popular strategies of tourism promotion in Japan, and the case is compared with them: popular media-induced tourism, particularly anime tourism, and local mascots.

Paarungsstrategien für hochpräzise Produkte*/Pairing strategies for high-precision products - Industrie 4.0 provides opportunities to produce at low cost while meeting growing demands for product precision

2016 ◽  
Vol 106 (11-12) ◽  
pp. 804-808
Author(s):  
R. Wagner ◽  
B. Häfner ◽  
G. Prof. Lanza
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Industrie 4.0 ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Quality Requirements ◽  
New Information ◽  
Production Strategies ◽  
Information And Communication

Steigende Anforderungen an die Produktqualität stellen Unternehmen vor die Herausforderung, günstige Produkte nahe der technologischen Fertigungsgrenzen zu produzieren. Die Paarung von Montagekomponenten mit angepassten Produktionsstrategien bietet in diesem Umfeld mögliche Lösungsansätze. Neue Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien im Kontext von Industrie 4.0 eröffnen hierfür neuartige Möglichkeiten.   Companies are faced with increasing product quality requirements to manufacture high quality products close to technological limits in a cost-effective way. The pairing of assembly components provides an approach to cope with this challenge by adapted production strategies. New information and communication technologies offer novel opportunities within „Industrie 4.0“.

scholarly journals Using Online Remote Laboratory in Agriculture Engineering and Electronic Training

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (06) ◽  
pp. 66
Author(s):  
Abdelmoula Abouhilal ◽  
Amine Moulay Taj ◽  
Naima Taifi ◽  
Abdessamad Malaoui
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Irrigation System ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Experimental Manipulation ◽  
Education Systems ◽  
Remote Labs ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Engineering Training ◽  
Core Part

<p class="0abstract">Practical manipulations are a core part of engineering training education systems. Remote labs are a new method used for teaching and practicing experimental manipulation using the performance of information and communication technologies. This paper presents a study of two remote labs architecture using low cost embedded systems that could be addressed to the 3rd year bachelor degree students on renewable energy and others on electronics courses. The first manipulation is based on Arduino microcontroller to monitor an irrigation system powered by photovoltaic panels. In addition, the second manipulation uses a powerful PcDuino, to control remotely a logic electronic experience. A simple interface is developed to allow students and instructors to access to these manipulations. This study is aimed to improve the present education systems in the Moroccan universities by managing the practical manipulation for a large number of students, especially in the open-access faculties. Finally, this architecture can be easily extended to other disciplines and courses.</p>

scholarly journals Frequency of use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) Among Women Farmers in Agricultural Development Programme Zones in Oyo State, Nigeria

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Women Farmers ◽  
Sampled Data ◽  
Monthly Income ◽  
Frequency Of Use ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Average Monthly Income

The potential of ICTs in retrieving vast amount of agricultural information at relatively low cost is invaluable, hence the study assessed the frequency of use of ICTs among women farmers in Agricultural Development Zones in Oyo State. A total of 120 respondents were sampled. Data were retrieved using interview schedule and were analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Statistics reveal respondents average age, average household size and average monthly income as x =45.8, x =10.6 and x = ₦7,800.34 respectively, majority (86.7%) were married, 58.3 % representing respondents with primary education. Mobile phone was the most available (x=0.98) and the most frequently used (x=1.83 ) ICT by the respondents among all the ICTs available. Provision of information on fertilizer sources and application ( x=1.66) was the benefit derived most from the use of ICTs while poor ICTs infrastructure ( x=1.55) and difficulty in the utilization of ICTs gadgets (x=1.62) ranked highest as constraints to the utilization of ICTs. Significant relationship existed between respondents average monthly income (r= 0.492, p=0.000), educational level (χ2 = 4.726, p= 0.021) constraints to the utilization of ICTs (r=0.423 p=0.000) and utilization of ICTs. Scaling up the ICTs infrastructure base around farming clusters and capacity building on enhancing the utilization of mobile phones for agricultural information retrieval is advocated for women farmers.

scholarly journals Batch Order and Discrete Order Picking Integrated with Vehicle Routing Decisions

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 60-67
Author(s):  
Gerrit Karel Janssens ◽  
Stef Moons ◽  
Katrien Ramaekers ◽  
An Caris
Keyword(s):  
Vehicle Routing ◽  
Vehicle Routing Problem ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Dynamic Environment ◽  
Order Picking ◽  
Routing Problem ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Online Shoppers ◽  
Business To Consumer

In a business-to-consumer (B2C) context, customers order more frequently and in smaller quantities, resulting in a high number of consignments. Moreover, online shoppers expect a fast and accurate delivery at low cost or even free. To survive in such a market, companies can no longer optimise individual supply chain processes, but need to integrate several activities. In this article, the integrated order picking-vehicle routing problem is analysed in an e-commerce environment. In previous research, a mathematical programming formulation has been formulated in literature but only small-size instances can be solved to optimality. Two picking policies are studied: discrete order picking and batch order picking. The influence of various problem contexts on the value of integration is investigated: a small picking time period, outsourcing to 3PL service providers, and a dynamic environment context.

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