The purpose of this paper is to apply the scatter search methodology to general classes of binary problems. We focus on optimization problems for which the solutions are represent...
We study the problem of planning the production of new and recovering defective items of the same product manufactured on the same facility. Items of the product are produced in b...
Karl Inderfurth, Adam Janiak, Mikhail Y. Kovalyov,...
This paper analyzes a legendary Chinese horse race problem involving the King of Qi and General Tianji which took place more than 2000 years ago. In this problem each player owns ...
Over the last decade and a half, tabu search algorithms for machine scheduling have gained a near-mythical reputation by consistently equaling or establishing state-of-the-art per...
Jean-Paul Watson, Adele E. Howe, L. Darrell Whitle...
Discretization is defined as the process that divides continuous numeric values into intervals of discrete categorical values. In this article, the concept of cost-based discretiz...
Davy Janssens, Tom Brijs, Koen Vanhoof, Geert Wets