生鲜电商和物流外文文献 Monitoring and assessing fruit freshness in IOT-based e-commerce delivery using scenario analysis and interval number approaches.pdf

Information Sciences 373 (2016) 557–570 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Information Sciences journal homepage: /locate/ins Monitoring and assessing fruit freshness in IOT-based e-commerce delivery using scenario analysis and interval number approaches Junhu Ruan a,c,∗, Yan Shi b,c a College of Economics and Management, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China b General Education Center, Tokai University, Kumamoto 862-8652, Japan c Faculty of Management and Economics, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: We are concerned with the monitoring and assessment of in-transit fruit freshness in e- Received 10 October 2015 commerce deliveries. After comparing the fulfillment processes of fresh fruit transportation Revised 5 April 2016 in traditional retailing and e-retailing, we formulate an Internet of Things–based frame- Accepted 5 July 2016 work for monitoring fruit e-commerce deliveries. Based on the fulfillment operations and Available online 6 July 2016 monitoring modules of the framework, we propose an approach based on a two-stage sce- Keywords: nario for assessing the freshness of in-transit fruits. In the first stage, we use a learning-by- Fruit e-commerce doing mechanism to develop a scenario construction method