In order to minimize costs, manufacturing companies have been relying on assembly lines for the mass production of commodity goods. Among other issues, the successful operation of an assembly line ...

1 School of Computer and Communication Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, China 2 School of International Economics, China Foreign Affairs University, Beijing, China ...

Battery energy storage systems (BESSs) are a key technology to accommodate the uncertainties of RESs and load demand. However, BESSs at an improper location and size may result in no-reasonable ...

Abstract: A parallel memetic algorithm for the NP-hard vehicle routing problem with time windows (VRPTW) is proposed. The algorithm consists of components which are executed as parallel processes. A ...

Abstract: It is a big challenging issue of avoiding falling into local optimum especially when facing high-dimensional nonseparable problems where the interdependencies among vector elements are ...

Here we implemented our chromosomes as permutations, so the chromosome space already satisfies two constraints (row and column attacks). For the fitness function, we consider the number of pair ...

ABSTRACT In this paper, we focus on the multi-objective stochastic multiple knapsack problem, in which the object weights are random. We propose a new approach called the multi-objective memetic ...

ABSTRACT: In this paper we present a new optimization algorithm, and the proposed algorithm operates in two phases. In the first one, multiobjective version of genetic algorithm is used as search ...