In an environment marked by ever-greater international competition, wine sector companies have been seriously questioning the structure of their entire logistics chain. This is due to the emergence of new actors (i.e., large retailers); the diversification of service providers' product offers;...

The existence of common structures in physics and computer sciences theories has become an active field of research. In the present paper the scope is enlarged, in particular in Economics, to any theory which is formalized in quantitative models meeting some precise but general conditions. The...