Background: The global dairy market is experiencing a massive transition as dairy farming
has recently undergone modernization. As a result, the dairy industry needs to improve its …

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 …

The dairy industry is a unique branch of the food production sector, where various decisions
have to be made concerning the type and quantity of the manufactured products and the …

This paper considers the multiobjective scheduling of flexible manufacturing systems
(FMSs). Due to high degrees of route flexibility and resource sharing, deadlocks often exhibit …

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 combination of Petri net (PN) modeling with AI-based heuristic search (HS) algorithms
(PNHS) has been successfully applied as an integrated approach to deal with scheduling …

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 …

Some classic and complex problems in Operations Research consist of simplified versions
of real logistic and supply chain management applications. One common and successful …

Sustainability and efficiency are key factors in agro-food industry, since the success of
companies in this sector relies on the achievement of these objectives. Decision-making …

For all countries an integrated and purposefully police system to investigate the incident
occurred, has special importance. The existence of a system that can quickly make the best …