Fields of Action for Designing Measures to Avoid Food Losses in Logistics Networks

Designing computer networks to avoid partitioning

It is shown that a network can be constructed on a given set of host computers such that the possibility of a network partition resulting from network node and link failure can be ruled out with an arbitrarily high degree of conndence. More precisely, a class of networks is exhibited on any given number of host nodes so that the probability of a network partition decreases exponentially with on...

de Reducing food losses by intelligent food logistics

The need to feed an ever-increasing world population makes it obligatory to reduce the millions of tons of avoidable perishable waste along the food supply chain. A considerable share of these losses is caused by non-optimal cold chain processes and management. This Theme Issue focuses on technologies, models and applications to monitor changes in the product shelf life, defined as the time rem...

Designing Eco-Effective Reverse Logistics Networks

Reverse Logistics Networks (RLNs) have grown in importance after return policies became compulsory. Lately, questions have been raised whether they are as helpful to the environment as possible. Efforts have been conducted to optimize RLNs in terms of their eco-efficiency, minimizing costs and emissions; still, results are not advancing with the necessary speed. Alternatively, the ecoeffectiven...

FAO's action programme for the prevention of food losses.

designing dynamic demand networks considering agility and security measures

responsibility in demand networks is one of the most important measures of performance. the concept of agility and flexibility in service and production. variety and changes in demand need more flexible network design that can cope with potential shortage and delay. this paper presents new mathematical model to optimize the design of demand network when there are highly variable demands. it als...