This paper reviews the breadth of complexity of the design process, products,
manufacturing, and business. Manufacturing is facing unprecedented challenges due to …

Synchronization processes in populations of locally interacting elements are the focus of
intense research in physical, biological, chemical, technological and social systems. The …

The dynamics of many social, technological and economic phenomena are driven by
individual human actions, turning the quantitative understanding of human behavior into a …

The digital revolution has brought about many societal changes such as the creation of
“smart cities”. The smart city concept has changed the urban ecosystem by embedding …

The interest in supply chain networks and their analysis as complex systems is rapidly
growing. The physical approach to the topic draws on the concept of heterogenous …

This book is devoted to primarily continuous models for a special class of supply chains
often called production or supply networks. The aim is to present a mathematical description …

Due to delays in the adaptation of production or delivery rates, supply chains can be
dynamically unstable with respect to perturbations in the consumption rate, which is known …

El Efecto Látigo (En idioma inglés Bullwhip Effect) es uno de los causantes de las
fluctuaciones que experimenta la proyección de la demanda a medida que se aleja del …

This review paper is devoted to a brief overview of results and models concerning flows in
networks and channels of networks. First of all, we conduct a survey of the literature in …

Data-driven and machine-learning-based methods are increasingly used in attempts to
master the challenges of the world. But are they really the best approaches to manage …