In order to maintain a reliable and economic electric power supply, the maintenance of power plants is becoming increasingly important. In this paper, a formulation that enables a...
In this paper we present a new evolutionary method for complex-process optimization. It is partially based on principles of the scatter search methodology, but it makes use of inn...
Heuristic Algorithms (HA) are very widely used to tackle practical problems in operations research. They are simple, easy to understand and inspire confidence. Many of these HAs a...
The paper focuses on the study of solving the large-scale traveling salesman problem (TSP) based on neurodynamic programming. From this perspective, two methods, temporal differenc...
Jia Ma, Tao Yang, Zeng-Guang Hou, Min Tan, Derong ...
Mixed-Initiative approaches to Planning and Scheduling are being applied in different real world domains. While several recent successful examples of such tools encourage a wider ...