Combinatorial optimization problems are encountered often in various real-world applications, including logistics, scheduling, and network design ...

Professor of Management Science Associate Dean for Research and Innovation Maria Paola Scaparra is a Professor of Management Science and a member of the Centre for Logistics and Heuristic Optimisation ...

Passive dampers play a key role in the smart and reliable design of building structures under uncertain earthquake loading. Passive dampers enable structural designers to enhance the potential of ...

1 Department of Computer Science, Ignatius Ajuru University, Port Harcourt, Nigeria. 2 Department of Computer Science, Federal University, Yenagoa, Nigeria. Adaptability and dynamicity are special ...

Abstract: The Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) which is a theoretical computer science and operations research problem, has several applications even in its purest formulation, such as the manufacture ...

1 Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, College of Technology, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon. 2 Department of Electrical and Telecommunications Engineering, National Advanced ...

Each presentation is presented by a speaker and supervised by three supervisors. There are k supervisors available. There are two types of constraints: hard constraints and soft constraints. Hard ...

Roger Adams Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States ...

Abstract: The optimization algorithms are heuristic and metaheuristic. Heuristic algorithms discover the solution by using the trial and error method. On the other ...