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The bipartite boolean quadratic programming problem (BBQP) is a generalization of the well studied boolean quadratic programming problem. The model has a variety of real life applications; however, empirical studies of the model are not available in the literature, except in a few isolated...
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In this work we present a tabu search metaheuristic method for solving the permutation flow shop scheduling problem with sequence dependent setup times and the objective of minimising total weighted tardiness. The problem is well known for its practical applications and for the difficulty in...
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) 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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This paper presents a hybrid metaheuristic for solving the static dial-a-ride problem with heterogeneous vehicles and fixed costs. The hybridization combines a reactive greedy randomized adaptive search, used as outer scheme, with a tabu search heuristic in the local search phase. The algorithm...
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neighborhood search outperforms the other metaheuristics. In addition, a detailed performance analysis of both the proposed …
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In recent years modern methods of optimization have contributed greatly to the advances in data mining and related areas. These contributions continue today and promise to further advance the state of the art both in terms of modeling innovations and new solution methodologies. In this paper, we...
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A tabu search heuristic procedure for the capacitated facility location problem is developed, implemented and computationally tested. The heuristic procedure uses both short term and long term memories to perform the main search process as well as the diversification and intensification...
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certain amount of the resource of the agent. We present new metaheuristics for the generalized assignment problem based on …
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This paper presents a metaheuristic solution approach based on Tabu search for the open-pit mine production scheduling problem with metal uncertainty. To search the feasible domain more extensively, two different diversification strategies are used to generate several initial solutions to be...
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