Paper production requires large amounts of cellulosic fiber, whereas the world's forested
lands and croplands have a finite capacity to supply such resources. To deal with likely …

The logistics sector is one of the most important domains in the service sector in
understanding the increasing scale of business activities along with globalization. Due to the …

Flexible job shop scheduling problem (FJSSP) is a critical operational planning step in
manufacturing that ensures on-time delivery of goods leading to customer satisfaction. The …

Firms have to improve sustainable processes and carry out performance measurement in
today's competitive environment as well as optimize their business processes. Corporate …

Increased flexibility in job shops leads to more complexity in decision-making for shop floor
engineers. Partial Flexible Job Shop Scheduling (PFJSS) is a subset of Job shop problems …

One of the most popular tools used for risk assessment of marine machinery systems is
Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA). With this analysis tool, risk is represented in the …

Investment decision making may require the selection of the geographical areas where the
investments will be mainly done. A large number of factors could influence this decision …

Cover crop selection should be oriented to the achievement of specific agrosystem benefits.
The cover crop, catch crop, green manure and fodder uses were identified as possible …

There is an important body of literature using multi-criteria distance function methods for the
aggregation of a battery of sustainability indicators in order to obtain a composite index. This …

Sustainable forest management has been approached on many occasions by defining and
subsequently measuring a set of initially accepted indicators. This methodology permits the …