Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity, and we, as machine
learning (ML) experts, may wonder how we can help. Here we describe how ML can be a …

The food supply chain (FSC) is considered to be a critical infrastructure by all governments,
and multiple strategies have been proposed to make FSCs more resilient towards …

The occurrence of natural disasters or accidents causes the obstruction or interruption of
road traffic connectivity and affects the transportation of essential materials, especially for …

We address the problem of redesigning a multi-echelon food bank supply chain network for
the collection of food donations and their distribution to charitable agencies. Strategic …

Abstract The field of “Sustainable Operations” and the term itself have arisen only in the last
ten to twenty years in the context of sustainable development. Even though the term is …

In the last few decades, production and procurement of food grain in India have steadily
increased, however, storage capacity has not increased proportionally. The government of …

We review existing decision support models (including statistical, simulation, and
optimization models) aimed at addressing chronic food insecurity issue by enhancing the …

We propose a bi-objective, bilevel optimization model for the location of relief distribution
centers (DCs) in humanitarian logistics. The upper-level decision-maker (an aid-providing …

Purpose Locating disaster response centers is one of the key elements of efficient relief
operations. The location and infrastructure of the candidate facilities usually conform to the …

The global food insecurity, malnourishment and rising world hunger are the major
hindrances in accomplishing the zero hunger sustainable development goal by 2030. Due …