Balancing assembly lines is a crucial task for manufacturing companies in order to improve productivity and minimize production costs. Despite some progress in exact methods to so...
Sophie D. Lapierre, Angel B. Ruiz, Patrick Soriano
Abstract. The paper describes an application of Parallel Simulated Annealing (PSA) for solving one of the most studied NP-hard optimization problems: Graph Coloring Problem (GCP). ...
Szymon Lukasik, Zbigniew Kokosinski, Grzegorz Swie...
Abstract. This paper presents a simple iterated local search metaheuristic incorporating a k-opt local search (KLS), called Iterated KLS (IKLS for short), for solving the maximum c...
Abstract-- The problem of allocating defensive weapon resources to hostile targets is an optimization problem of high military relevance. The need for obtaining the solutions in re...
This paper proposes a new evolutionary region merging method to improve segmentation quality result on oversegmented images. The initial segmented image is described by a modified ...