The decision-making processes have become crucial for organizations immersed on an intensified competitiveness situation. Because of current industrial reality, a continuous improvement of the ability for adding value and enhancing profitability of decisions is needed by firms (Pascual et al,...

Optimization models are increasingly being used for planning natural resources operations. However, the inherent uncertainty present in natural resources makes it difficult to directly apply their results. In particular, production scheduling for sawmills presents several challenges since the...

In recent years, there has been a growing trend to out-source service operations in which the equipment maintenance is carried out by an external agent rather than in-house. Often, the agent (service provider) offers more than one option and the owners of equipment (customers) are faced to the...