Toward digital twins for sawmill production planning and control: benefits, opportunities, and challenges

S Chabanet, H Bril El-Haouzi, M Morin… - … Journal of Production …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Sawmills are key elements of the forest product industry supply chain, and they play
important economic, social, and environmental roles. Sawmill production planning and …

Optimal investment and unit sizing of distributed energy systems under uncertainty: A robust optimization approach

K Akbari, MM Nasiri, F Jolai, SF Ghaderi - Energy and Buildings, 2014 - Elsevier
A distributed energy system (DES) is recognized as a local energy system. Over the past
decade, number of studies in technological fields, economizing and its regulatory aspects …

Improved selection in evolutionary multi–objective optimization of multi–skill resource–constrained project scheduling problem

M Laszczyk, PB Myszkowski - Information Sciences, 2019 - Elsevier
In this paper a modified selection operator is presented in combination with classical Non-
dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm II (NSGA-II). It is shown that various modifications can …

[HTML][HTML] Improving forest decision-making through complex system representation: A viability theory perspective

C Labarre, JC Domec, P Andrés-Domenech… - Forest Policy and …, 2025 - Elsevier
Forests are complex adaptive systems (CAS) featuring dynamics that can take centuries to
unfold. Managing them for multiple objectives (eg financial performance, climate regulation …

Robust inventory control under demand and lead time uncertainty

A Thorsen, T Yao - Annals of Operations Research, 2017 - Springer
In this paper a general methodology is proposed based on robust optimization for an
inventory control problem subject to uncertain demands and uncertain lead times. Several …

A robust optimization approach for the road network daily maintenance routing problem with uncertain service time

L Chen, M Gendreau, MH Hà, A Langevin - Transportation research part E …, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper studies the robust optimization approach for the routing problem encountered in
daily maintenance operations of a road network. The uncertainty of service time is …

Robust inventory decision under distribution uncertainty: A CVaR-based optimization approach

R Qiu, J Shang, X Huang - International Journal of Production Economics, 2014 - Elsevier
We study the robust inventory decision-making problem faced by risk-averse managers with
incomplete demand information in a newsvendor setting. Three basic models are …

Multiskilling with closed chains in a service industry: A robust optimization approach

CA Henao, JC Ferrer, JC Muñoz, J Vera - International Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Variability and seasonality is an inherent characteristic in many service industries. This
leads to the problem of mismatch between employee supply and demand. In this work we …

Simultaneous planning of purchase orders, production, and inventory management under demand uncertainty

DZ Dadaneh, S Moradi, B Alizadeh - International Journal of Production …, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper focuses on the issues of the purchase of bill of materials, production planning,
and inventory management in materials and products warehouses under demand …

Improving consistency in hierarchical tactical and operational planning using Robust Optimization

PP Alvarez, A Espinoza, S Maturana, J Vera - Computers & Industrial …, 2020 - Elsevier
Many companies use optimization models to support their tactical planning production
decisions. These tactical plans typically cover a horizon of several months. However, later …