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International trade in high value perishables has grown enormously in the past few decades. In the developed world consumers now expect to be able to eat perishable produce from all parts of the world, and in most cases throughout the year. Perishable plant products are, however, susceptible to physical damage and often have a potential storage life of only a few days. Given their key importance in the world economy, Crop Post-Harvest Science and Technology: Perishables devotes itself to perishable produce, providing current and comprehensive knowledge on all the key factors affecting

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Food handling --- Food --- Perishable goods --- Perishable commodities --- Perishables --- Commercial products --- Food quality --- Quality of food --- Quality of products --- Food sanitation --- Handling of food --- Sanitation, Household --- Labeling --- Quality

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Despite significant achievements, the discipline of supply chain management is still unable to satisfactorily handle many practical real-world challenges.  The authors of Networks Against Time claim that a unified supply chain network analytics framework is needed which should be able to handle optimization and competitive behavior while also maintain relevance to many industrial sectors in which perishable products are prominent, from healthcare to food and from fashion apparel to technology. This Brief provides a wide range of critical supply chain problems which are modeled as generalized networks. Guidelines are provided to determine the arc multipliers that capture perish ability of the product whether food, radioisotopes, or even highly perishable blood in healthcare over space and time. Through case studies the authors portray the application of the models and algorithms to real-world sectors which illustrate the power of the framework in practice. The models and algorithms are fully described along with the input and output data in the case studies. This level of transparency is useful pedagogically as well as for future research and for applications in practice. Researchers and practitioners in mathematics, in operations research and management science, operations management, as well as in economics and computer science will find this book useful to gain a broader appreciation of the richness of network supply chain structures, processes, and applications. This book can also be used by advanced undergraduate students and graduate students in the disciplines noted above to familiarize themselves with methodologies and supply chain network models and applications.

Business logistics. --- Consumer Satisfaction. --- Marketing. --- Business logistics --- Perishable goods --- Civil & Environmental Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Operations Research --- Perishable goods. --- Perishable commodities --- Perishables --- Supply chain management --- Mathematics. --- Game theory. --- Mathematical models. --- Mathematical optimization. --- Operations research. --- Management science. --- Operations Research, Management Science. --- Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences. --- Mathematical Modeling and Industrial Mathematics. --- Optimization. --- Commercial products --- Industrial management --- Logistics --- Optimization (Mathematics) --- Optimization techniques --- Optimization theory --- Systems optimization --- Mathematical analysis --- Maxima and minima --- Operations research --- Simulation methods --- System analysis --- Math --- Science --- Models, Mathematical --- Games, Theory of --- Theory of games --- Mathematical models --- Mathematics --- Quantitative business analysis --- Management --- Problem solving --- Statistical decision --- Operational analysis --- Operational research --- Industrial engineering --- Management science --- Research --- System theory

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This Special Issue ""Multi-Agent Systems"" gathers original research articles reporting results on the steadily growing area of agent-oriented computing and multi-agent systems technologies. After more than 20 years of academic research on multi-agent systems (MASs), in fact, agent-oriented models and technologies have been promoted as the most suitable candidates for the design and development of distributed and intelligent applications in complex and dynamic environments. With respect to both their quality and range, the papers in this Special Issue already represent a meaningful sample of the most recent advancements in the field of agent-oriented models and technologies. In particular, the 17 contributions cover agent-based modeling and simulation, situated multi-agent systems, socio-technical multi-agent systems, and semantic technologies applied to multi-agent systems. In fact, it is surprising to witness how such a limited portion of MAS research already highlights the most relevant usage of agent-based models and technologies, as well as their most appreciated characteristics. We are thus confident that the readers of Applied Sciences will be able to appreciate the growing role that MASs will play in the design and development of the next generation of complex intelligent systems. This Special Issue has been converted into a yearly series, for which a new call for papers is already available at the Applied Sciences journal’s website: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci/special_issues/Multi-Agent_Systems_2019.

multi-agent systems --- agent development framework --- semantic web --- online double auction --- agent development methodology --- intelligent agents --- travel behavior --- computational accountability --- coordinated control --- directed graph --- agent methodologies --- surface vehicle --- SEA_ML --- sociogram --- formation tracking --- socio-technical systems --- agreement technologies --- electronic bartering system --- delay --- social commitments --- human-machine interaction --- regression models --- collision avoidance --- electric vehicles --- mechanism design --- model-driven development --- agent technology --- multi agent systems --- computer science --- 3D representation --- multiagent systems --- scaled consensus --- multi-agent simulation --- multiple passive agents --- type-2 fuzzy inference system --- Artificial Intelligence --- bike sharing systems (BSS) --- trajectory mining --- Mobile Robot Navigation --- open data --- RBFNNs --- agent-based programming --- methodologies for agent-based systems --- socio–technical systems --- underactuated vehicle --- BDI agents --- autonomous agents --- Behavior Trees (BTs) --- coordination models --- pedestrian environment --- person tracking --- cognitive disabilities --- coordination --- commuting --- genetic algorithm --- ontology --- Genetic Programming (GP) --- user interaction levels --- intelligent hybrid systems --- complex network --- agent-oriented technologies --- agent-based modeling --- network management --- behavior modeling --- semantic web service --- mobile communication --- smart cities --- mobile device agent --- organizational model --- [-5]agent-based simulation --- agent-based social simulation --- agent-based simulation --- data visualization --- linked data --- ambient intelligence --- orientation --- velocity obstacle --- multi-agent system --- kinodynamic planning --- agent-based modelling --- charging stations --- organizations and institutions --- agent behavior --- tree mining --- agent-oriented software engineering --- carpooling --- perishable goods