Hybrid Intelligent Approach for the Selection of Third-Party Reverse Logistics Provider under Uncertainty

A hybrid intelligent approach is proposed to help the decision maker to select the appropriate third-party reverse logistics provider. The following process is included： firstly,the evaluation team is established to determine the selection criteria and evaluate them by triangular fuzzy numbers; secondly,calculate the weight of criteria by the proposed hybrid algorithm integrating particle swarm optimization（ PSO） and simulated annealing（ SA）; then, the performance evaluation for each supplier is predicted by the proposed self-feedback neural network（ SFBNN） based on the historical data. A numerical example is also presented to interpret the methodology above.