Unit commitment is a complex decision-making process because of multiple constraints which must not be violated while nding the optimal or a near-optimal commitment schedule. This...
Machine scheduling is a critical problem in industries where products are custom-designed. The wide range of products, the lack of previous experiences in manufacturing, and the s...
Juan Carlos Vidal, Manuel Mucientes, Alberto Bugar...
Operation management of underground passenger transport systems is associated with combinatorial optimization problems (known as crew and train scheduling and rostering) which bel...
This paper presents a comparative study of three popular, Evolutionary Algorithms (EA); Genetic Algorithms (GA), Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and Differential Evolution (DE) ...
This work addresses selected aspects of natural evolution, especially of the field of population genetics, that are considered to be meaningful for algorithmic further development...
Michael Affenzeller, Stefan Wagner 0002, Stephan M...