SCIOMACHEN A.

This paper addresses the analysis issue of the complex interactions arising among different components of a warehouse logistic system. In particular, the focus is on a case study related to the handling operations required by the flow of goods within a store of Ikea, located in the center of Italy. The proposed study has been performed using...

This paper presents a new heuristic algorithm tailored to solve large instances of an NP-hard variant of the shortest path problem, denoted the cost-balanced path problem, recently proposed in the literature. The problem consists in finding the origin–destination path in a direct graph, having both negative and positive weights associated with...

Shipping and ports are strategic areas for our country and their safety is essential to guarantee supplies, as well as competitiveness and sustainability in this sector. Furthermore, the even stronger connection with urban areas and the evolution of the connection structures with the port make it necessary to have a strategic plan capable of...