“…Mathematical modeling serves to improve our understanding of the phenomena, and, more importantly, for designing and optimizing food processes (Datta, 2008;Feyissa et al, 2012;Ho et al, 2013;Perrot et al, 2011;Torrez Irigoyen et al, 2014) in a virtual way by simulation. As we demonstrated here for controlled atmosphere storage of pear fruit, such an approach must account for the complex and variable structure, shape, size and physiological properties of the food through stochastic simulation techniques (Hertog et al, 2007;Rogge et al, 2013;Scheerlinck et al, 2001;Serment-Moreno et al, 2015).…”