The supply chain of perishable products is a combination of information organization,
sharing and integration. The information modeling of supply chain is constructed to abstract …

Industry 4.0 advocates an intensive use of information and communication technologies in
manufacturing facilities for achieving sustainability and success in a market with exigent and …

Simulation is strongly related to the Military Sector, indeed Computer Simulation has been
effectively applied to Defense and Aerospace since the end of the World War II and John …

Traffic constitutes a key factor in a city. Thus, city layout, quality of services, pollution,
products delivery, people transportation, and many other activities depend closely on traffic …

The highly competitive business environment has been increasing with the advent of
Industry 4.0, since the fast-changing market requirements need rapid decision-making to …

Global concurrence is a topic that affects many companies in most sectors of the economy.
In particular, the improvement in the manufacturing, packing, storage, and transportation of …

Petri nets have become a tremendously important mathematical and graphical tool in
modeling and performance evaluation of real systems with discrete events that are …

Despite its worldwide presence, the characteristics of dairy industry may vary largely from
one country to another and also between the different regions of a country. Farmers can form …

Artificial intelligence methodologies, as the core of discrete control and decision support
systems, have been extensively applied in the industrial production sector. The resulting …

Petri nets and simulation are a modeling paradigm and a tool, respectively, which may be
successfully combined for diverse applications, such as performance evaluation, decision …