Y Zeng, Y Cai, G Huang, J Dai - Energies, 2011 - mdpi.com
Energy is crucial in supporting people's daily lives and the continual quest for human development. Due to the associated complexities and uncertainties, decision makers and …
M Gravel, WL Price, C Gagné - European journal of operational Research, 2002 - Elsevier
This paper presents an ant colony optimization metaheuristic for the solution of an industrial scheduling problem in an aluminum casting center. We present an efficient representation of …
V Oduguwa, A Tiwari, R Roy - Applied Soft Computing, 2005 - Elsevier
Traditional methods often employed to solve complex real world problems tend to inhibit elaborate exploration of the search space. They can be expensive and often results in sub …
H Terbrack, T Claus, F Herrmann - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
Scarcity of resources, structural change during the further development of renewable energy sources, and their corresponding costs, such as increasing resource costs or penalties due …
MJ Mahmoodabadi, AR Nemati - Engineering Science and Technology, an …, 2016 - Elsevier
Genetic algorithm (GA) is a population-based stochastic optimization technique that has two major problems, ie low convergence speed and falling down in local optimum points. This …
In recent years, the use of pre-printed advertising inserts in newspapers has increased dramatically. Pre-printed inserts allow advertisers to deliver colorful, high-quality marketing …
Integrated optimization of the procurement cost of electric energy with production planning is increasingly considered in various industries. The traditional approach in industry is …
B Jakkula, M Ch. SN - Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering, 2020 - emerald.com
Purpose Load haul dumper (LHD) is one of the main ore transporting machineries used in underground mining industry. Reliability of LHD is very significant to achieve the expected …
An economic optimization methodology for the pulp mill benchmark problem is presented. The process variables with economic significance and the available degrees of freedom in …