Hyper-heuristics comprise a set of approaches that are motivated (at least in part) by the
goal of automating the design of heuristic methods to solve hard computational search …

The fresh fruit supply chain is characterized by long supply lead times combined with
significant supply and demand uncertainties, and relatively thin margins. These challenges …

Hyper-heuristics comprise a set of approaches that aim to automate the development of
computational search methodologies. This chapter overviews previous categorisations of …

The current state of the art in hyper-heuristic research comprises a set of approaches that
share the common goal of automating the design and adaptation of heuristic methods to …

We study the inventory management decisions of a retailer selling a single perishable good
in a deterministic setting. We take into account consumers' assessment of quality over the …

Nowadays, the agricultural supply chain as one of the key fields of food production is
considered which has recently attracted much attention from researchers. This paper …

The value of perishable products is most affected by the time delays in a supply chain. A
major issue is how to integrate the existing practices in production, inventory holding and …

The fresh fruit agricultural and distribution sector is faced with risks and uncertainties from
climate change, water scarcity, land-use increase for industrial and urban development …

In the real world, there are many complex problems in engineering. Every problem has a
level of computational complexity, starting from simple problems and reaching NP-hard …

In this paper, we extend a novel model for source-separated waste collection and
transportation, the green location routing problem with multi-compartment (GLRPFMC), for …