—Genetic algorithm (GA) is too dependent on the initial population and a lack of local search ability. In this paper, an improved greedy genetic algorithm (IGAA) is proposed to o...
Immune Algorithms have been used widely and successfully in many computational intelligence areas including optimization. Given the large number of variants of each operator of thi...
Vincenzo Cutello, Giuseppe Nicosia, Mario Romeo, P...
Recently much research has focused on both the supply chain and reverse logistics network design problem. The rapid progress in computer and network technology and the increasingly...
Eoksu Sim, Sungwon Jung, Haejoong Kim, Jinwoo Park
— Metaheuristics such as Estimation of Distribution Algorithms and the Cross-Entropy method use probabilistic modelling and inference to generate candidate solutions in optimizat...
Marcus Gallagher, Ian Wood, Jonathan M. Keith, Geo...
An Estimation of Distribution Algorithm (EDA) is proposed to approach the Hybrid Flow Shop with Sequence Dependent Setup Times and Uniform Machines in parallel (HFSSDST-UM) proble...