Catherine Xiaocui Lou is a Senior Lecturer in supply chain and logistics in the Victoria University Business School, Deputy Research Lead in Business and Law and Research Fellow at the Institute for Sustainable Industries & Liveable Cities at Victoria University, Australia. She is the Global Vice Chair (Australasia) and the Australian Chairperson for the Women in Logistics and Transport, under the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport.Sardar M. N. Islam is a Professor at Victoria University's Institute of Sustainable Industries and Livable Cities, Australia. He is a Distinguished Visiting Professor of Artificial Intelligence at UnSri. He has published 31 scholarly authored research books and about 250 articles, including many top-grade journal articles in his areas of expertise and interest. Nicholas Billington has worked with applications of operations research across the last 35 years, initially at the Australian Railway Research and Development Organisation and later at Shell Australia in the areas of corporate planning, transportation and logistics.

• List of figures   Preface   List of acronyms and abbreviations   Chapter 1: Introduction   Chapter 2: Supply chain management, corporate governance, risk management and optimisation modelling   Chapter 3: Conceptual framework and modelling methodology   Chapter 4: Robust optimisation model for supply chain management and corporate governance   Chapter 5: Analysis and discussion   Chapter 6: Discussion, implications and future directions   Appendices   Index

"This book presents an excellent combination of SCM with AI, Game Theory & Optimization Theory with real-life examples. Especially, the robust SCM and corporate governance model's implementation provides optimal supply chain solutions, corporate governance principles, and risk management strategies to help all companies achieve long-term benefits in firm value and maximise shareholder interests and corporate performance while remaining robust in an uncertain environment." - Professor S. B. Goyal Ph. D., Director, Faculty ofInformation Technology, City University, MALAYSIA