Blockchain in supply chain management: a review, bibliometric, and network analysis

J Moosavi, LM Naeni, AM Fathollahi-Fard… - … Science and Pollution …, 2021 - Springer
Blockchain is a distributed ledger technology that has attracted both practitioners and
academics attention in recent years. Several conceptual and few empirical studies have …

Designing a sustainable closed-loop supply chain network for walnut industry

A Salehi-Amiri, A Zahedi, N Akbapour… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2021 - Elsevier
In the history of sustainable development, logistics has been thought of as one of the key
factors in the supply chain network. In the meantime, the issue of Closed-loop Supply Chain …

A sinh cosh optimizer

J Bai, Y Li, M Zheng, S Khatir, B Benaissa… - Knowledge-Based …, 2023 - Elsevier
Currently, meta-heuristic algorithms have been widely studied and applied, but balancing
exploration and exploitation remains a challenge. In this study, a novel meta-heuristic …

Waterwheel plant algorithm: a novel metaheuristic optimization method

AA Abdelhamid, SK Towfek, N Khodadadi… - Processes, 2023 - mdpi.com
Attempting to address optimization problems in various scientific disciplines is a
fundamental and significant difficulty requiring optimization. This study presents the …

An improved Harris Hawks optimization algorithm with multi-strategy for community detection in social network

FS Gharehchopogh - Journal of Bionic Engineering, 2023 - Springer
The purpose of community detection in complex networks is to identify the structural location
of nodes. Complex network methods are usually graphical, with graph nodes representing …

Efficient multi-objective meta-heuristic algorithms for energy-aware non-permutation flow-shop scheduling problem

A Goli, A Ala, M Hajiaghaei-Keshteli - Expert Systems with Applications, 2023 - Elsevier
This study investigates the optimization of non-permutation flow-shop scheduling problems
and lot-sizing simultaneously. Contrary to previous works, we first study the energy …

Artificial neural network model to predict the compressive strength of eco-friendly geopolymer concrete incorporating silica fume and natural zeolite

AA Shahmansouri, M Yazdani, S Ghanbari… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2021 - Elsevier
The growing concern about global climate change and its adverse impacts on societies is
putting severe pressure on the construction industry as one of the largest producers of …

Red deer algorithm (RDA): a new nature-inspired meta-heuristic

AM Fathollahi-Fard, M Hajiaghaei-Keshteli… - Soft computing, 2020 - Springer
Nature has been considered as an inspiration of several recent meta-heuristic algorithms.
This paper firstly studies and mimics the behavior of Scottish red deer in order to develop a …

Metaheuristic algorithms for a sustainable agri-food supply chain considering marketing practices under uncertainty

F Gholian-Jouybari, O Hashemi-Amiri… - Expert Systems with …, 2023 - Elsevier
In recent decades, the rapid growth of the global population has caused a significant
increase in agricultural and food product demands. Thereby, the production of various items …

Artificial ecosystem-based optimization: a novel nature-inspired meta-heuristic algorithm

W Zhao, L Wang, Z Zhang - Neural Computing and Applications, 2020 - Springer
A novel nature-inspired meta-heuristic optimization algorithm, named artificial ecosystem-
based optimization (AEO), is presented in this paper. AEO is a population-based optimizer …