This paper formally presents the resident physician scheduling problem, which is one of the most important scheduling problems in hospital. The resident physician scheduling probl...
In the Weapon-Target Assignment Problem, m enemy targets are inbound, each with a value Vj representing the damage it may do. The defense has n weapons, and the probability that w...
This paper explores the application of multiobjective Genetic Algorithms (mGAs) to rural land use planning, a spatial allocation problem. Two mGAs are proposed. Both share an unde...
Keith B. Matthews, Susan Craw, Stewart Elder, Alan...
Following the work of Stephens and coworkers on the coarse-grained dynamics of genetic systems, we work towards a possible generalisation in the context of genetic algorithms, givi...
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...