The Angolan economy is highly vulnerable as most state budget incomes originate from oil and gas exporting. On the edge of celebrating fifty years of independence, economic diversification and prosperity still need to be accomplished. The current methodology for prioritizing and selecting public...

The relationship between efficiency, quality, and access in healthcare is far from being well defined. In particular, there is no consensus on whether there is a trade-off between hospital performance and its social dimensions, such as the care appropriateness, safety, and access to proper...

Dispatching rules are simple but efficient heuristics to solve multi-objective job shop scheduling problems, particularly useful to face the challenges of dynamic shop environments. A promising method to automatically evolve such rules represents genetic programming based hyper-heuristic...