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Long term production planning of open pit mines by ant colony optimization
Shishvan, Masoud Soleymani; Sattarvand, Javad - In: European Journal of Operational Research 240 (2015) 3, pp. 825-836
The problem of long-term production planning of open pit mines is a large combinatorial problem. Application of mathematical programming approaches suffer from reduced computational efficiency due to the large amount of decision variables. This paper presents a new metaheuristic approximation...
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Metaheuristic Algorithms Applied to Bioenergy Supply Chain Problems: Theory, Review, Challenges, and Future
Castillo-Villar, Krystel K. - In: Energies 7 (2014) 11, pp. 7640-7672
) frequently fail to find optimal solutions for non-convex and/or large-scale models whereas metaheuristics are efficient … by studying and analyzing the application of metaheuristics to solve bioenergy supply chain models as well as the … exclusive challenges of the mathematical problems applied in the bioenergy supply chain field. The reviewed metaheuristics …
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Application of Intelligent Water Drops Algorithm in Reservoir Operation
Dariane, A.; Sarani, S. - In: Water Resources Management 27 (2013) 14, pp. 4827-4843
Optimum reservoir operation is a challenging problem in water resources systems. In this paper, Intelligent Water Drops (IWD) algorithm is applied in a reservoir operation problem. IWD is a population based algorithm and is initially proposed for solving combinatorial problems. The algorithm...
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Simultaneous dock assignment and sequencing of inbound trucks under a fixed outbound truck schedule in multi-door cross docking operations
Liao, T.W.; Egbelu, P.J.; Chang, P.C. - In: International Journal of Production Economics 141 (2013) 1, pp. 212-229
This paper studies the simultaneous dock assignment and sequencing of inbound trucks for a multi-door cross docking operation with the objective to minimize total weighted tardiness, under a fixed outbound truck departure schedule. The problem is newly formulated and solved by six different...
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Multi-population interactive coevolutionary algorithm for flexible job shop scheduling problems
Xing, Li-Ning; Chen, Ying-Wu; Yang, Ke-Wei - In: Computational Optimization and Applications 48 (2011) 1, pp. 139-155
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Generating structured music using quality metrics based on Markov models
HERREMANS, Dorien; WEISSER, Stéphanie; SÖrensen, Kenneth - Faculteit Toegepaste Economische Wetenschappen, … - 2014
In this research, a first order Markov model is built from a corpus of bagana music, a traditional lyre from Ethiopia. Different ways in which low order Markov models can be used to build quality assessment metrics for an optimization algorithm are explained. These are then implemented in a...
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Decomposition based hybrid metaheuristics
Raidl, Günther R. - In: European Journal of Operational Research 244 (2015) 1, pp. 66-76
metaheuristics that combine principles of classical metaheuristic techniques with advanced methods from fields like mathematical … recognized that these concepts may also provide a very fruitful basis for effective hybrid metaheuristics. We review the basic … principles of these decomposition techniques and discuss for each promising possibilities for combinations with metaheuristics …
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Metaheuristics for the risk-constrained cash-in-transit vehicle routing problem
Talarico, Luca; Sörensen, Kenneth; Springael, Johan - In: European Journal of Operational Research 244 (2015) 2, pp. 457-470
resulting metaheuristics are able to obtain solutions of excellent quality in very limited computing times. …
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Biased random-key genetic algorithms with applications in telecommunications
Resende, Mauricio - In: TOP: An Official Journal of the Spanish Society of … 20 (2012) 1, pp. 130-153
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Metaheuristics for the risk-constrained cash-in-transit vehicle routing problem
TALARICO, Luca; SÖRENSEN, Kenneth; SPRINGAEL, Johan - Faculteit Toegepaste Economische Wetenschappen, … - 2013
This paper proposes a variant of the well-known capacitated vehicle routing problem that models the problem of routing vehicles in the cash-in-transit industry by introducing a risk constraint. In this problem, which is called the risk-constrained cash-in-transit vehicle routing problem...
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