Despite the simplicity of the whale optimization algorithm (WOA) and its success in solving
some optimization problems, it faces many issues. Thus, WOA has attracted scholars' …

Transportation planning has been established as a key topic in the literature and social
production practices. An increasing number of researchers are studying vehicle routing …

Abstract We introduce the Mixed Fleet Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows and
Partial Recharging by Multiple Chargers (MF-VRP-MC). It composes of electric and internal …

The transportation sector is one of the major sources of global carbon emissions. In this
study, a bibliometric analysis was conducted using CiteSpace and VOSviewer for articles …

Nowadays organizations outsource transportation of goods or services to reduce cost which
leads to a particular type of problem called open location-routing. Also, each logistic …

Effective appointment scheduling (EAS) is essential for the quality and patient satisfaction in
hospital management. Healthcare schedulers typically refer patients to a suitable period of …

The whale optimizer is a popular metaheuristic algorithm, which has the problems of weak
global exploration, easy falling into local optimum, and low optimization accuracy when …

Road freight transport is one of the sectors with the highest greenhouse gas emissions and
fuel consumption in the logistics industry. In recent years, due to the increase in carbon …

Medical image segmentation is an important technical tool, OTSU algorithm is a common
method in threshold segmentation, but with the increase of the number of threshold …

Abstract The Job-Shop Scheduling Problem (JSSP) is an NP-hard problem and can be
solved with both exact methods and heuristic algorithms. When the dimensionality is …