The simultaneous optimization of multiple queries submitted to adatabase system may lead to substantial savings over the current approach ofoptimizing each query separately. Isolating common subexpressions in multiplequeries and treating their execution as a sharable resource are...

Background: Brazil is one of the largest consumers of fertilizers and is highly dependent on the international market to meet its demand for agricultural production inputs. The complexity of the fertilizer supply chain motivated us to carry out this study on redesigning the fertilizer logistics...