Vol. 1 No. 1 (2023)

This issue presents interdisciplinary research in logistics network optimization, agro-food industries, industrial project management under uncertainty, climate-responsive architecture, cloud-based cryptographic security, and materials engineering. The published studies develop and solve hub location and distribution network models considering time constraints, heterogeneous fleets, and product diversity, with a case study in Iran’s grain sector.

The issue further explores the utilization of agricultural waste in the flour and grain industry to enhance nutritional properties and proposes a project time-and-material planning model under uncertainty and calendar disruptions, applied to oil resource maintenance projects. Climate-based spatial organization patterns in residential buildings located in cold regions of Iran are also examined.

Additional contributions introduce novel attribute-based encryption schemes with anonymous authentication and time constraints in fog computing environments, analyze the impact of casting variables on grain refinement in aluminum alloys, and identify and prioritize criteria affecting façade quality improvement using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP).

All contributions have undergone a rigorous peer-review process and aim to enhance logistical efficiency, industrial sustainability, cybersecurity robustness, and built-environment quality through analytical, data-driven, and application-oriented research.