More advanced scalarisation methods like normal boundary intersection (Das and Dennis, 1998) and enhanced normalised normal constraint (Messac et al., 2003) circumvent these drawbacks. The authors would like to thank guest-editors Dr. Gyöngyi Kovács, Dr. Kuula Markku, Dr. Constantin Blome, and Dr. Stefan Seuring, as well as as the reviewers and editorial team for providing valuable insights during the review process. More contemporary evolutionary algorithms like non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm II (NSGA-II) resolved the shortcomings of the early algorithms (Deb et al., 2002). Non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm III (NSGA-III) is based on the framework of NSGA-II but was especially developed to handle many-objective problems (Deb and Jain, 2014). As in this article no many-objective problems will be discussed, the NSGA-III algorithm will not be further considered. Then, the K-means algorithm was used to identify the ESBs. Then, click on the Store tab to open the list of available add-ons and select what you need. To maintain a competitive position in the current worldwide market, companies need to operate their processes as optimally as possible with respect to different, often conflicting, objectives. While pesticide producers (first tier) and retail chains (fourth tier) seem to respond better to a social trade-off, the social cross-insurance mechanism has shown to be particularly beneficial to companies from the food industry (third tier).

Through the analysis of a 20-variation vignette-based experiment, we evaluate the effects of these issues on the corporate credibility (expertise and trustworthiness) of four tiers of a typical food supply chain: pesticide producers, farmers, companies from the food industry and retail chains. Because all the objectives must be repeatedly compared, the algorithm can be time consuming when handling many-objective problems (i.e., multi-objective problems with four or more objectives). The NSGA-II algorithm has already been subjected to numerous improvements or adaptions tailored for specific problems. Genetic algorithms especially are extremely well-suited for optimising complex black-box problems. Since our platform is completely formula based, clients can use xapiscript directly through this module, instead of complex third party applications. Especially for bigger optimisation problems, considering the optimisation of complex (bio-)chemical processes, and optimisation problems that are linked with process simulations, it is of the utmost importance that the amount of iterations that are required are kept to minimum to avoid the unnecessary loss of (computational) time. Before deciding to trade, please understand the risks involved, considering your investment objectives and experience level. These objectives can include for instance optimality with respect to societal, environmental and economical aspects.

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