Sürdürülebilirlik, tedarik zinciri sistemlerinde önemli rol oynamaktadır. Bu bağlamda, tedarik zincirlerinde düğüm noktaları olan limanların sürdürülebilirliği konusu da giderek daha çok önem kazanmaktadır. Bu çalışmada; sürdürülebilir liman sistemlerini daha iyi anlamaya dönük olarak limanlarda ve liman işletmelerinde sürdürülebilirlik literatürü ele alınmakta, yönlendiriciler ve engeller belirlenmekte ve belirlenen bu faktörler, ekonomik-sosyal ve çevresel değerlerin birleşimini içeren üçlü bilanço (triple bottom line) yaklaşımı doğrultusunda incelenerek kavramsal bir analiz sunulmaktadır. Bu ayrıştırmayla, sürdürülebilir liman literatürünün üçlü bilançodaki dengesi değerlendirilmektedir. Çalışma sonucunda; sürdürülebilir liman literatüründe yönlendiricilerin çevresel sürdürülebilirlik konularında, engellerin ise ekonomik sürdürülebilirlik konularında yoğunlaştığı gözlenmiştir.

Vehicle routing problem (VRP) is a complex problem in the Operations Research topic. School bus routing (SBR) is one of the application areas of VRP. It is also possible to examine the employee bus routing problem in the direction of SBR problem. This chapter presents a case study with data taken from a retail company for capacitated employee bus routing problem. A mathematical model was developed based on minimizing the total bus route distance. The number and location of bus stops were determined using k-means and fuzzy c-means clustering algorithms. LINGO optimization software was utilized to solve the mathematical model. Then, due to NP-Hard nature of the bus routing problem, simulated annealing (SA) and genetic algorithm (GA)-based approaches were proposed to solve the real-world problem. Finally, the performances of the proposed approaches were evaluated by comparing with classical heuristics such as saving algorithm and nearest neighbor algorithm. The numerical results showed that the proposed GA-based approach with k-means performed better than other approaches.

In order to recognize research directions, monitor research hot spots and directions for further researches, this work evaluates the bibliometric analysis of quality control charts. So, based on the following analysis—chronological distribution, country distribution, keyword co-occurrence and author co-occurrence—a summary of quality control chart studies from 2022 to 2023 was obtained using VOSviewer software. A total of 2702 research papers published were examined. The findings indicate that the topics of "engineering", "management sciences & statistics" and "materials science & automation control systems" are of particular interest in quality control chart researches. In addition, the keywords “statistical process control”, “average run length” and “control charts” have seen a sharp increase in recent years in term of citations. Besides, William H. Woodall, Douglas C. Montgomery and Matthew R Reynolds were identified as the highly referenced authors. The USA, China, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Malaysia were found to have the highest influence on quality control charts researches among the 76 nations studied in this study, with 618, 485, 260, 202, and 140 publications, respectively.

A Brief Review of Metaheuristics for Document or Text Clustering: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0075-9.ch012: Document clustering, which involves concepts from the fields of information retrieval, automatic topic extraction, natural language processing, and machine