Background: Solid waste collection is a relevant issue for municipalities and can be improved by installing volumetric sensors inside dumpsters. Sensors generate a maintenance cost but provide additional information to decide which dumpsters to empty in a given day when visiting all of them is...

Background: Inventory planning in retail supply chains requires balancing cost efficiency and service reliability under demand uncertainty and financial limitations. The literature has seldom addressed the joint integration of stochastic demand, deterministic lead times, and supplier-specific...

Achieving a net-zero energy system in Europe by 2050 will likely require large-scale deployment of hydrogen and seasonal energy storage to manage variability in renewable supply and demand. This study addresses two key objectives: (1) to develop a modeling framework that integrates seasonal...