Keyword: heuristics

Found 5460 papers in total
Mixed truck delivery systems with both hub-and-spoke and direct shipment
Mixed truck delivery systems with both hub-and-spoke and direct shipment
2003,
This paper studies a mixed truck delivery system that allows both hub-and-spoke and...
Genetic algorithms for rerouting shortest paths in dynamic and stochastic networks
Genetic algorithms for rerouting shortest paths in dynamic and stochastic networks
2003,
This paper considers the problem of finding the shortest path in a dynamic network,...
Tabu Machine: a new neural network solution approach for combinatorial optimization problems
Tabu Machine: a new neural network solution approach for combinatorial optimization problems
2003,
A new artifical neural network solution approach is proposed to solve combinatorial...
On solving the progressive party problem as a mixed integer problem
On solving the progressive party problem as a mixed integer problem
2003,
The ‘Progressive Party Problem’ has long been considered a problem...
Genetic algorithms with double strings for 0–1 programming problems
Genetic algorithms with double strings for 0–1 programming problems
2003,
In this paper, genetic algorithms with double strings for 0–1 knapsack problems...
Heuristic methods for large centroid clustering problems
Heuristic methods for large centroid clustering problems
2003,
This article presents new heuristic methods for solving a class of hard centroid...
Optimal task allocation and hardware redundancy policies in distributed computing systems
Optimal task allocation and hardware redundancy policies in distributed computing systems
2003,
A distributed computing system (DCS) in general consists of processing nodes,...
Optimization of the keyboard arrangement problem using an Ant Colony algorithm
Optimization of the keyboard arrangement problem using an Ant Colony algorithm
2003,
In order to solve the problem of the arrangement of letters on a computer keyboard, an...
Heuristic optimization of experimental designs
Heuristic optimization of experimental designs
2003,
We propose to integrate different algorithms for constructing D -optimum designs for...
Selecting hierarchical facilities in a service-operations environment
Selecting hierarchical facilities in a service-operations environment
2003,
This paper presents and solves a hierarchical model for the location of service...
Stock selection heuristics for interdependent items
Stock selection heuristics for interdependent items
2003,
In a distribution environment, the problem of choosing the best mix of items to stock...
An improved heuristic for deciding on emergency transshipments
An improved heuristic for deciding on emergency transshipments
2003,
Utilising emergency lateral transshipments between retailers to meet customer demand...
Randomized multi-level lot-sizing heuristics for general product structures
Randomized multi-level lot-sizing heuristics for general product structures
2003,
We consider the multi-level lot-sizing (MLLS) problem as it occurs in material...
Budget constrained location problem with opening and closing of facilities
Budget constrained location problem with opening and closing of facilities
2003,
In this paper, we study a budget constrained location problem in which simultaneously...
Capacity sizing in the presence of a common shared resource: dimensioning an inbound call center
Capacity sizing in the presence of a common shared resource: dimensioning an inbound call center
2003,
This paper studies a capacity sizing problem for service systems where capacity is...
Optimization of the stochastic dynamic production cycling problem by a genetic algorithm
Optimization of the stochastic dynamic production cycling problem by a genetic algorithm
2003,
A production system to produce products of multiple items by several machines to meet...
An enumerative heuristic and reduction methods for the assembly line balancing problem
An enumerative heuristic and reduction methods for the assembly line balancing problem
2003,
A new heuristic algorithm and new reduction techniques for the type 1 assembly line...
The effect of material flow and workload on the performance of machine location heuristics
The effect of material flow and workload on the performance of machine location heuristics
2003,
Depending on the problem structure and routing strategies a machine location problem...
Scheduling unrelated parallel machines to minimize total weighted tardiness
Scheduling unrelated parallel machines to minimize total weighted tardiness
2003,
This article considers the problem of scheduling a given set of independent jobs on...
An efficient tabu search approach for the two-machine preemptive open shop scheduling problem
An efficient tabu search approach for the two-machine preemptive open shop scheduling problem
2003,
This article considers the problem of scheduling two-machine preemptive open shops to...
An experimental analysis of local minima to improve neighbourhood search
An experimental analysis of local minima to improve neighbourhood search
2003,
The paper reports the results from a number of experiments on local search algorithms...
Application of heuristic search algorithm to transportation and assignment
Application of heuristic search algorithm to transportation and assignment
2002,
In operational research, issues of transportation and assignment have extensive...
FACOPT: a user friendly FACility layout OPTimization system
FACOPT: a user friendly FACility layout OPTimization system
2003,
The facility layout problem is a well-researched one. However, few effective and user...
A cellular heuristic for the multisource Weber problem
A cellular heuristic for the multisource Weber problem
2003,
The multisource location–allocation problem in the continuous space is...
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