— The problem of parts nesting in plane areas is found in several industries, with restrictions and different objectives. Among these industries having this process they are pack...
Roberto Selow, Flavio Neves Junior, Heitor S. Lope...
Vehicle routing problem (VRP) is a well-known combinatorial optimization and nonlinear programming problem seeking to service a number of customers with a fleet of vehicles. This ...
In classical network flow theory the choice of paths, on which flow is sent, is only restricted by arc capacities. This, however, is not realistic in most applications. Many prob...
The problem of routing and wavelength assignment (RWA) in wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) optical networks consists in routing a set of lightpaths and assigning a wavelength...
Thiago F. Noronha, Mauricio G. C. Resende, Celso C...
Current Genetic Algorithms can efficiently address order-k separable problems, in which the order of the linkage is restricted to a low value k. Outside this class, there exist hie...
Edwin D. de Jong, Dirk Thierens, Richard A. Watson