A business-to-business fleet management service provider for central food market enterprises

Prindezis, N; Kiranoudis, CT; Marinos-Kouris, D

dc.contributor.author	Prindezis, N	en
dc.contributor.author	Kiranoudis, CT	en
dc.contributor.author	Marinos-Kouris, D	en
dc.date.accessioned	2014-03-01T01:18:30Z
dc.date.available	2014-03-01T01:18:30Z
dc.date.issued	2003	en
dc.identifier.issn	0260-8774	en
dc.identifier.uri	https://dspace.lib.ntua.gr/xmlui/handle/123456789/15049
dc.subject	Application Development	en
dc.subject	Application Service Provider	en
dc.subject	Business To Business	en
dc.subject	Information System	en
dc.subject	Road Network	en
dc.subject	Small and Medium Enterprise	en
dc.subject	Software Tool	en
dc.subject	Vehicle Routing Problem	en
dc.subject	Service Provider	en
dc.subject.classification	Engineering, Chemical	en
dc.subject.classification	Food Science & Technology	en
dc.subject.other	Computer software	en
dc.subject.other	Costs	en
dc.subject.other	Heuristic methods	en
dc.subject.other	Industrial economics	en
dc.subject.other	Interactive computer systems	en
dc.subject.other	Java programming language	en
dc.subject.other	Web browsers	en
dc.subject.other	Food markets	en
dc.subject.other	Food products	en
dc.title	A business-to-business fleet management service provider for central food market enterprises	en
heal.type	journalArticle	en
heal.identifier.primary	10.1016/S0260-8774(03)00041-4	en
heal.identifier.secondary	http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0260-8774(03)00041-4	en
heal.language	English	en
heal.publicationDate	2003	en
heal.abstract	Central food markets are places of daily trading between clients and small and medium enterprises and understandably a field of massive logistics operations chiefly in the area of distribution. Since most enterprises have common characteristics, distribution logistics operations can be substantially aided by developing an Application Service Provider (ASP) that would offer services of distribution logistics by appropriately solving the fleet management problem. ASPs constitute a new scientific area of information systems applications developed in order to support semi-structured or unstructured decisions, paying much attention on the spatial dimension of data to be analysed, such as the location and shape of, and relationships among, geographic features. This paper presents an ASP to coordinate and disseminate tasks and related information for solving the vehicle routing problem using appropriate metaheuristic techniques. Its architecture involves a Java Web applet equipped with interactive communication capabilities between peripheral software tools. The ASP was developed in distributed software fashion technology for all computer platforms utilizing a Web browser, focusing on the detailed road network of Athens and the needs of the Athens Central Food Market enterprises. (C) 2003 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.	en
heal.publisher	ELSEVIER SCI LTD	en
heal.journalName	Journal of Food Engineering	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.1016/S0260-8774(03)00041-4	en
dc.identifier.isi	ISI:000184527500011	en
dc.identifier.volume	60	en
dc.identifier.issue	2	en
dc.identifier.spage	203	en
dc.identifier.epage	210	en