In the last decade, aerial delivery system has been considered as a promising response to
increasing traffic jams and incremental demand for transportation. In this study, a distance …

Most of the optimization problems encountered in the real world are discrete type which
involves decision variables defined in the discrete search space. Binary optimization …

Abstract The Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) algorithm is a swarm intelligence approach which
has initially been proposed to solve optimisation of mathematical test functions with a unique …

In recent years, nature disasters have been observed with larger scale and stronger lethality
than before. As one of the most crucial links of humanitarian relief operation, shelter site …

The p-median problem is one of the true classic problems of location science and has been
applied in many ways. It involves the location of p-facilities on a network where the objective …

This paper demonstrates an application of the improved crow search algorithm (I-CSA),
which is a modified version of the crow search algorithm (CSA). CSA is a recent, nature …

Facility location problem (FLP) and vehicle routing problem (VRP) are two of the most
challenging issues in logistics. This paper presents an exploration of the multinode facility …

Assigning duties to pharmacies to serve the public on weekends, nights, and public holidays
is known as the pharmacy duty scheduling problem (PDSP). In this study, a p-median model …

In the classical p-median problem, the objective is to find a set Y of p vertices on an
undirected graph G=(V, E) G=(V, E) in such a way that Y ⊆ VY⊆ V and the sum of distances …

Facility location selection is one of the most important decisions of companies and
industries. At the same time, since a business process begins with the selection of a facility …