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Hyper-heuristics: theory and applications (2018)
Book

This introduction to the field of hyper-heuristics presents the required foundations and tools and illustrates some of their applications. The authors organized the 13 chapters into three parts. The first, hyper-heuristic fundamentals and theory, pro... Read More about Hyper-heuristics: theory and applications.

Iteration-related various learning particle swarm optimization for quay crane scheduling problem (2018)
Conference Proceeding

Quay crane scheduling is critical in reducing operation costs at container terminals. Designing a schedule to handling containers in an efficient order can be difficult. For this problem which is proved NP-hard, heuristic algorithms are effective to... Read More about Iteration-related various learning particle swarm optimization for quay crane scheduling problem.

Modified mixed-dimension chaotic particle swarm optimization for liner route planning with empty container repositioning (2018)
Conference Proceeding

Empty container repositioning has become one of the important issues in ocean shipping industry. Researchers often solve these problems using linear programming or simulation. For large-scale problems, heuristic algorithms showed to be preferable due... Read More about Modified mixed-dimension chaotic particle swarm optimization for liner route planning with empty container repositioning.

A hyper-heuristic with two guidance indicators for bi-objective mixed-shift vehicle routing problem with time windows (2018)
Journal Article

In this paper, a Mixed-Shift Vehicle Routing Problem is proposed based on a real-life container transportation problem. In a long planning horizon of multiple shifts, transport tasks are completed satisfying the time constraints. Due to the different... Read More about A hyper-heuristic with two guidance indicators for bi-objective mixed-shift vehicle routing problem with time windows.

Hybrid multi-objective evolutionary algorithms based on decomposition for wireless sensor network coverage optimization (2018)
Journal Article

In Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN), maintaining a high coverage and extending the network lifetime are two conflicting crucial issues considered by real world service providers. In this paper, we consider the coverage optimization problem in WSN with t... Read More about Hybrid multi-objective evolutionary algorithms based on decomposition for wireless sensor network coverage optimization.