Here, an attempt is made to present a state-of-the-art review of papers on facility layout
problems. This paper aims to deal with the current and future trends of research on facility …

Reconfigurable manufacturing systems (RMS) are considered the future of manufacturing,
being able to overcome both dedicated (DMS) and flexible manufacturing systems (FMS). In …

Abstract Generally, in Home Health Care (HHC) logistics, caregivers which are started from
a pharmacy are scheduled and routed to do different care services at patients' home. At the …

The quadratic assignment problem (QAP), one of the most difficult problems in the NP-hard
class, models many real-life problems in several areas such as facilities location, parallel …

We encounter optimization problems in our daily lives and in various research domains.
Some of them are so hard that we can, at best, approximate the best solutions with (meta-) …

Abstract Home Health Care (HHC) is generally defined and considered as a set of nurses
serving the patients at home by providing the required drugs and other HHC services (eg …

Simulated Annealing (SA) is one of the oldest metaheuristics and has been adapted to solve
many combinatorial optimization problems. Over the years, many authors have proposed …

This study aimed to prepare forest fire susceptibility map** (FFSM) using a ubiquitous GIS
and an ensemble of adaptive neuro fuzzy interface system (ANFIS) with genetic (GA) and …

Optimization and its related solving methods are becoming increasingly important in most
academic and industrial fields. The goal of the optimization process is to make a system or a …

Previous works have proposed various approaches to implement service chaining by
routing traffic through the desired middleboxes according to pre-defined policies. However …