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A visual interactive optimisation tool for analysing alternate locations for petroleum distribution facilities: towards building an intelligent Decision-Support System

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  • Pejman Hassanzadeh
  • Manbir Sodhi
  • Vaidyanathan Jayaraman

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This paper describes an intelligent Decision-Support System developed to analyse alternate locations for petroleum distribution so that delivery, storage and dispatching costs can be considered jointly with potential environmental risks. It consists of a visual, modelling environment that allows decision-makers to describe problems and a knowledge-based component that interacts with users to generate and explore alternatives during decision-making iterations. Given the run-up in petroleum costs and the disruptive effect of environmental phenomena such as hurricanes, such assessments may be beneficial where tradeoffs between environmental risks and operating costs must be evaluated.

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  • Pejman Hassanzadeh & Manbir Sodhi & Vaidyanathan Jayaraman, 2009. "A visual interactive optimisation tool for analysing alternate locations for petroleum distribution facilities: towards building an intelligent Decision-Support System," International Journal of Operational Research, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 4(1), pages 1-22.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijores:v:4:y:2009:i:1:p:1-22
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