Centralized versus Decentralized Decision-Making for Recycled Material Flows

I H S U A N H O N G , * , † J A N E C . A M M O N S , ‡ A N D M A T T H E W J . R E A L F F § Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, National Chiao Tung University, 1001 Ta Hsueh Road, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan, School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 765 Ferst Drive, NW Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0205, and School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 311 Ferst Drive, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0100

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