A bilevel programming model represents the relationship in a specific decision process that
involves decisions within a hierarchical structure of two levels. The upper-level problem is …

For years, extensive research has been in the binarization of continuous metaheuristics for
solving binary-domain combinatorial problems. This paper is a continuation of a previous …

Interactive users' preferences and waiting time together have great impact on charging
station network design of electric vehicles (EVs), but only waiting time was considered in …

With the rapid urbanization, solving the facility location and size problem (FLSP) of general
service infrastructure (GSI) has become an essential issue in spatial planning. Due to …

This paper extends the follower's retail store location problem of Marianov et al.(2018) to
include the leader's decisions. The leader locates its stores knowing that a follower will enter …

Unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) is commonly utilized for ocean resource exploration.
To effectively plan long-term tasks, it is crucial to consider energy usage and task quality …

This paper considers a task planning problem, which dispatches multiple unmanned surface
vehicles (USVs) to visit a set of targets located in ocean environments. The problem is …

We present a location–allocation problem for wastewater treatment in a cluster of processing
units. The problem involves installing wastewater treatment plants of appropriate capacities …

The school bus routing problem (SBRP) involves interrelated decisions such as selecting
the bus stops, allocating the students to the selected bus stops, and designing the routes for …

This paper presents a facility location problem with capacitated multiservice facilities in
which the allocation of the users is based on their preferences. The problem arises from an …