The Internet of Things (IoT) is the latest example of the System of Systems (SoS), demanding
for both innovative and evolutionary approaches to tame its multifaceted aspects. Over the …

Edge-cloud computing, combining the benefits of both edge computing and cloud
computing, is one of the most promising ways to address the resource insufficiency of smart …

A permutation flow-shop scheduling problem (PFSP) has been studied for a long time due to
its significance in real-life applications. This work proposes an improved artificial bee colony …

In industrial manufacturing systems, failures of machines caused by faults in their key
components greatly influence operational safety and system reliability. Many data-driven …

It is well-recognized that obsolete or discarded products can cause serious environmental
pollution if they are poorly be handled. They contain reusable resource that can be recycled …

With the development of 6G wireless communication technologies, various resource-
intensive and delay-sensitive vehicle application tasks are generated. These application …

Vehicular edge computing (VEC) is an innovative computing paradigm with an exceptional
ability to improve the vehicles' capacity to manage computation-intensive applications with …

Federated learning (FL) allows multiple edge computing nodes to jointly build a shared
learning model without having to transfer their raw data to a centralized server, thus …

Swarm intelligence in a bat algorithm (BA) provides social learning. Genetic operations for
reproducing individuals in a genetic algorithm (GA) offer global search ability in solving …

This paper focuses on the profit maximization problem in a reconfigurable intelligent
surfaces (RIS) aided computing network, where multiple heterogeneous users offload their …