Over the last decade and a half, tabu search algorithms for machine scheduling have gained a near-mythical reputation by consistently equaling or establishing state-of-the-art per...
Jean-Paul Watson, Adele E. Howe, L. Darrell Whitle...
Discretization is defined as the process that divides continuous numeric values into intervals of discrete categorical values. In this article, the concept of cost-based discretiz...
Davy Janssens, Tom Brijs, Koen Vanhoof, Geert Wets
We study the problem of planning the production of new and recovering defective items of the same product manufactured on the same facility. Items of the product are produced in b...
Karl Inderfurth, Adam Janiak, Mikhail Y. Kovalyov,...
In this paper, we address a real life waste collection vehicle routing problem with time windows (VRPTW) with consideration of multiple disposal trips and drivers' lunch brea...
We studied a supplier selection problem, where a buyer, while facing random demand, is to decide ordering quantities from a set of suppliers with different yields and prices.We pr...