Keyword: heuristics

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Service spare parts versus production parts: a centralised or decentralised warehouse?
Service spare parts versus production parts: a centralised or decentralised warehouse?
2015,
The management of service spare parts has been a challenging problem for decades....
Thinking Aloud While Solving a Stock-Flow Task: Surfacing the Correlation Heuristic and Other Reasoning Patterns
Thinking Aloud While Solving a Stock-Flow Task: Surfacing the Correlation Heuristic and Other Reasoning Patterns
2014,
In the literature, it is assumed that individuals, while performing stock‐flow...
Using Critical Systems Heuristics to Guide Second-Order Critique of Systemic Practice: Exploring the Environmental Impact of Mining Operations in Southern Peru
Using Critical Systems Heuristics to Guide Second-Order Critique of Systemic Practice: Exploring the Environmental Impact of Mining Operations in Southern Peru
2014,
A framework based on Ulrich's critical systems heuristics (CSH) is presented to...
Staffing a service system with appointment-based customer arrivals
Staffing a service system with appointment-based customer arrivals
2014,
Appointment systems are widely used to facilitate customers’ access to services...
Examining the feasibility of using a modelling tool to assess resilience across a health-care system and assist with decisions concerning service reconfiguration
Examining the feasibility of using a modelling tool to assess resilience across a health-care system and assist with decisions concerning service reconfiguration
2014,
Changes in medical practice, demographic shifts and financial pressures are all...
A penalty-shift-insertion-based algorithm to minimize total flow time in no-wait flow shops
A penalty-shift-insertion-based algorithm to minimize total flow time in no-wait flow shops
2014,
This paper proposes a penalty‐shift‐insertion (PSI)‐based...
A graph-theoretic approach to interval scheduling on dedicated unrelated parallel machines
A graph-theoretic approach to interval scheduling on dedicated unrelated parallel machines
2014,
We study the problem of scheduling n non‐preemptive jobs on m unrelated...
Bi-criteria dynamic location-routing problem for patrol coverage
Bi-criteria dynamic location-routing problem for patrol coverage
2014,
In this paper, we address the problem of dynamic patrol routing for state troopers for...
Column generation and sequential heuristic procedure for solving an irregular shape cutting stock problem
Column generation and sequential heuristic procedure for solving an irregular shape cutting stock problem
2014,
The research addressing two‐dimensional (2D) irregular shape packing has...
A variable neighbourhood descent algorithm for the open-pit mine production scheduling problem with metal uncertainty
A variable neighbourhood descent algorithm for the open-pit mine production scheduling problem with metal uncertainty
2014,
Uncertainty is an inherent aspect of the open‐pit mine production scheduling...
Exact and heuristic algorithms for the Travelling Salesman Problem with Multiple Time Windows and Hotel Selection
Exact and heuristic algorithms for the Travelling Salesman Problem with Multiple Time Windows and Hotel Selection
2015,
We introduce and study the Travelling Salesman Problem with Multiple Time Windows and...
Solving mixed-integer robust optimization problems with interval uncertainty using Benders decomposition
Solving mixed-integer robust optimization problems with interval uncertainty using Benders decomposition
2015,
Uncertainty and integer variables often exist together in economics and engineering...
An evolutionary algorithm with the partial sequential forward floating search mutation for large-scale feature selection problems
An evolutionary algorithm with the partial sequential forward floating search mutation for large-scale feature selection problems
2015,
Several meta‐heuristic algorithms, such as evolutionary algorithms (EAs) and...
Heuristic for constrained two-dimensional three-staged patterns
Heuristic for constrained two-dimensional three-staged patterns
2015,
Three‐staged cutting patterns are often used in dividing large plates into...
An analysis of generalised heuristics for vehicle routing and personnel rostering problems
An analysis of generalised heuristics for vehicle routing and personnel rostering problems
2015,
The present study investigates the performance of heuristics while solving problems...
On parallel local search for permutations
On parallel local search for permutations
2015,
We investigate some ways in which massively parallel computing devices can be...
Semi-decentralized approximation of optimal control of distributed systems based on a functional calculus
Semi-decentralized approximation of optimal control of distributed systems based on a functional calculus
2015,
This paper discusses a new approximation method for operators that are solution to an...
A ph mesh refinement method for optimal control
A ph mesh refinement method for optimal control
2015,
A mesh refinement method is described for solving a continuous‐time optimal...
Adjoints estimation methods for impulsive Moon-to-Earth trajectories in the restricted three-body problem
Adjoints estimation methods for impulsive Moon-to-Earth trajectories in the restricted three-body problem
2015,
A study of optimal impulsive Moon‐to‐Earth trajectories is presented in...
Costate approximation in optimal control using integral Gaussian quadrature orthogonal collocation methods
Costate approximation in optimal control using integral Gaussian quadrature orthogonal collocation methods
2015,
Two methods are presented for approximating the costate of optimal control problems in...
Two-stage network constrained robust unit commitment problem
Two-stage network constrained robust unit commitment problem
2014,
For a current deregulated power system, a large amount of operating reserve is often...
A Clustering Search metaheuristic for the Point-Feature Cartographic Label Placement Problem
A Clustering Search metaheuristic for the Point-Feature Cartographic Label Placement Problem
2014,
The Point‐Feature Cartographic Label Placement (PFCLP) problem consists of...
Mining categorical sequences from data using a hybrid clustering method
Mining categorical sequences from data using a hybrid clustering method
2014,
The identification of different dynamics in sequential data has become an every day...
Resolving a vehicle routing problem with heterogeneous fleet, mixed backhauls and time windows using cuckoo behaviour approach
Resolving a vehicle routing problem with heterogeneous fleet, mixed backhauls and time windows using cuckoo behaviour approach
2015,
The vehicle routing problem (VRP) is one of the most famous NP‐hard...
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