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Ant Colony Optimization: a literature survey
Monteiro, Marta S.R.; Fontes, Dalila B.M.M.; Fontes, … - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2012
of heuristics based on the behaviour of nature ants. These algorithms have been used to solve many combinatorial … optimization problems and have been known to outperform other popular heuristics such as Genetic Algorithms. Therefore, we believe …
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Simulation-based optimization of an agent-based simulation
Deckert, Andreas; Klein, Robert - In: Netnomics 15 (2014) 1, pp. 33-56
and reliability for such problems are presented: an evolutionary algorithm called “neighbourhood elite selection” (NELS …) with a specific selection mechanism which prevents premature clustering, and a hybrid algorithm which combines NELS with … the popular best-in-class algorithm Simultaneous Perturbation Stochastic Approximation (SPSA). Those two algorithms are …
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Cost minimizing target setting heuristics for making inefficient decision-making units efficient
Pendharkar, Parag C. - In: International Journal of Production Economics 162 (2015) C, pp. 1-12
complexity. Two heuristics (Heuristic-I and Heuristic-II) that consider cost minimizing DEA frontier projections for inefficient … DMUs are proposed. The proposed heuristics are tested by using several simulated and real-world datasets with linear and … Fibonacci marginal input reduction costs. The results of the proposed heuristics are compared with traditional cost insensitive …
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Emergency response in natural disaster management: Allocation and scheduling of rescue units
Wex, Felix; Schryen, Guido; Feuerriegel, Stefan; … - In: European Journal of Operational Research 235 (2014) 3, pp. 697-708
propose and computationally compare several heuristics, including a Monte Carlo-based heuristic, the joint application of 8 … construction heuristics and 5 improvement heuristics, and GRASP metaheuristics. Our results show that problem instances (with up to …
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Optimising industrial performance improvement within a quantitative multi-criteria aggregation framework
Berrah, L.; Montmain, J.; Mauris, G.; Cliville, V. - In: International Journal of Data Analysis Techniques and … 3 (2011) 1, pp. 42-65
The major industrial control purpose is the reaching of the expected performances. In this sense, improvement processes are continuously carried out in order to define the right actions with regard to the objectives achievement. Thus, in order to better monitor the performance continuous...
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A new approach for data editing and imputation
Delgado-Quintero, Sergio; Salazar-González, Juan-José - In: Mathematical Methods of Operations Research 68 (2008) 3, pp. 407-428
The editing-and-imputation problem concerns the question of finding errors in a record which does not satisfy a set of consistency rules. Once some potential errors have been localizated, it is also necessary to impute new values to the associated fields. The output dataset should consist of...
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A new approach for data editing and imputation
Delgado-Quintero, Sergio; Salazar-González, Juan-José - In: Computational Statistics 68 (2008) 3, pp. 407-428
The editing-and-imputation problem concerns the question of finding errors in a record which does not satisfy a set of consistency rules. Once some potential errors have been localizated, it is also necessary to impute new values to the associated fields. The output dataset should consist of...
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A Heuristic Optimization Model for Vegetable Production and Marketing Decisions
Dillon, Carl R.; Vassalos, Michael - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012
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A Coordinated Production Planning Model with Capacity Expansion and Inventory Management
Rajagopalan, Sampath; Swaminathan, Jayashankar M. - In: Management Science 47 (2001) 11, pp. 1562-1580
Motivated by a problem faced by a large manufacturer of a consumer product, we explore the interaction between production planning and capacity acquisition decisions in environments with demand growth. We study a firm producing multiple items in a multiperiod environment where demand for items...
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Inverse 1-median problem on trees under weighted Hamming distance
Guan, Xiucui; Zhang, Binwu - In: Journal of Global Optimization 54 (2012) 1, pp. 75-82
prespecified supplier becomes the 1-median of modified location problem. A linear time algorithm is first proposed for the inverse …
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