Today, many enterprises involved in production are striving for improvements in resource efficiency, for environmental as well as economic reasons. Material flow networks, a method developed in the 1990s, has turned out to be a particularly useful tool with which to support planning processes in...

This book shows the breadth and depth of stochastic programming applications. All the papers presented here involve optimization over the scenarios that represent possible future outcomes of the uncertainty problems. The applications, which were presented at the 12th International Conference on...