This paper provides a detailed review of metaheuristic applications on discrete facility
location problems. The objective of this paper is to provide a concise summary of solution …

Damage to infrastructure, especially to highways and roads, adversely affects accessibility to
disaster areas. Predicting accessibility to demand points from the supply points by a …

Artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm is one of the recently proposed swarm intelligence
based algorithms for continuous optimization. Therefore it is not possible to use the original …

We address the problem of locating collection centers of a company that aims to collect used
products from consumers. The remaining value in the used products that can be captured by …

This paper considers a single-sourcing network design problem for a three-level supply
chain consisting of suppliers, distribution centers (DC's) and retailers, where risk-pooling …

Stochastic methods attempt to solve problems that cannot be solved by deterministic
methods with reasonable time complexity. Optimization algorithms benefit from stochastic …

The optimal design of a supply chain network is a challenging problem, especially for large
networks where there are multiple objectives. Such problems are usually formulated as …

Artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm, one of the swarm intelligence algorithms, has been
proposed for continuous optimization, inspired intelligent behaviors of real honey bee …

The uncapacitated facility location (UFL) problem is a NP-hard and pure binary optimization
problem. The main goal of UFL is that try to find an undetermined number of facilities to …

This paper addresses the problem of redesigning a supply chain network with multiple
echelons and commodities. The problem belongs to a comprehensive class of network …