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The Migratory Beekeeping Routing Problem: Model and an Exact Algorithm

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INFORMS Journal on Computing

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    Apiculture has gained worldwide interest because of its contributions to economic incomes and environmental conservation. In view of these, migratory beekeeping, as a high-yielding technique, is extensively adopted. However, because of the lack of an ...
Model-Based Decision Support Tools at Jugos S.A. Concentrated Fruit Juice Plant

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INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics

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    We describe the development of a decision-support tool to assist in the operations of a large concentrated apple and pear juice plant. The tool’s objective is to generate detailed schedules of clarified juice batches to be produced in the following weeks ...
The Humanitarian Pickup and Distribution Problem

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Operations Research

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    Food rescue—the collection of perishable products from food suppliers who are willing to make donations, and their distribution to welfare agencies that serve individuals in need—has become increasingly widespread in recent years. This phenomenon is a ...
Calibrated Route Finder: Improving the Safety, Environmental Consciousness, and Cost Effectiveness of Truck Routing in Sweden

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Interfaces

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    Calibrated Route Finder (CRF), an online route generation system, successfully finds the best route when many conflicting objectives are involved by using analytics in a collaborative environment. CRF, which has been in use since 2009, uses many diverse ...
Capacity Management in Agricultural Commodity Processing and Application in the Palm Industry

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M&SOM

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    This paper examines the capacity investment decisions of a processor that uses a commodity input to produce both a commodity output and a by-product in the context of agricultural industries. We employ a multiperiod model to study the optimal one-time ...
Managing Reliability and Stability Risks in Forest Harvesting

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M&SOM

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    The timing of forest stands harvesting is an important operational decision in forestry. Major goals of private nonindustrial forest owners are to achieve a steady flow of profits while reaching an overall satisfactory and reliable profit level. These ...
Carrier Portfolio Management for Shipping Seasonal Products

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Operations Research

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    Many seasonal products are transported via ocean carriers from origin to destination markets. The shipments arriving earlier in the market may sell at higher prices, but faster shipping services can be costly. In this paper, we study a newsvendor-type ...
Designing a Reliable and Dynamic Multimodal Transportation Network for Biofuel Supply Chains

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Transportation Science

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    This paper presents a cost-efficient and reliable supply chain network design model for biomass to be delivered to biofuel plants. Biomass is bulky, so transportation modes such as rail and barge can be used to deliver this product. For this reason, this ...

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