-heuristic algorithm based on simulated annealing (SA) is applied to heuristically solve the problem in a reasonable time. An initial … feasible solution generator and several novel neighborhood structures are applied to enhance performance of the SA algorithm … algorithm. The results of computational experiments indicate that the applied SA algorithm provides solutions with average …

-reduction Algorithm is developed to obtain the optimal allocation that minimizes the makespan. We show that the solution space increases … very quickly. In contrast, our algorithm is efficient with a polynomial computational complexity of , where is the total … number of serus in a seru system. To verify the usefulness of the developed exact dimension-reduction algorithm, we compare …

algorithm. Moreover, to preserve desirable population diversity and improve the searching efficiency, we propose different … problem-specific evolutionary strategies. Finally, we test the performance of our proposed memetic algorithm with other state …-of-the-art multi-objective evolutionary algorithms and demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed algorithm. …