In the last two decades, the fast and elitist non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm (NSGA-
II) has attracted extensive research interests, and it is still one of the hottest research …

This paper provides an extensive review of the popular multi-objective optimization
algorithm NSGA-II for selected combinatorial optimization problems viz. assignment …

Ecosystem services (ES), the benefits that humans obtain from nature, are of great
importance for human well-being. The challenge of meeting the growing human demands …

Urbanization is one of the biggest social transformations of modern time, driving and driven
by multiple social, economic, and environmental processes. The impacts of urbanization on …

Spatial optimization is an interdisciplinary field dedicated to the scientific and rational
allocation of resources spatially, which has received tremendous attention across various …

Land use optimization is a promising approach to achieve urban sustainability. Despite the
increasing number of literature on land use optimization, a little investigation is made to …

High-intensity human activities have changed land use/land cover (LULC) patterns in the
Huangshui River Basin (HRB), which has brought significant challenges to ecosystems …

Sustainable development is a commonly pursued goal worldwide, and assessing urban
sustainability has gradually become central to formulating urban development policies and …

Under the notion of sustainable development, a heuristic method named as the Boundary-
based Fast Genetic Algorithm (BFGA) is developed to search for optimal solutions to a land …

In this study, prediction, modeling, and optimization have been performed for four TPH
properties of graphene oxide nano powder-deionized water/ethylene glycol nf, which is …