The development and application of evolutionary algorithms (EAs) and other metaheuristics
for the optimisation of water resources systems has been an active research field for over …

Rainwater Harvesting (RWH) is the practice of capturing and storing stormwater for later use.
In addition to being an alternative source of water for non-potable applications, RWH is also …

Variable neighborhood search is a local search metaheuristic that uses sequentially
different neighborhood structures. This method has been successfully applied to various …

This paper addresses a production scheduling problem in a single-machine environment,
where a job can be either early, on time, late, or rejected. In order acceptance and …

The buffer allocation problem in production lines is an NP-hard combinatorial optimisation
problem. This paper proposes a new hybrid optimisation approach (using simulation) relying …

In this paper, we introduce a graph multi-coloring problem where each vertex must be
assigned a given number of different colors, represented as integers, and no two adjacent …

In this paper, we consider a single-machine scheduling problem (P) inspired from
manufacturing instances. A release date, a deadline, and a regular (ie, non-decreasing) cost …

In this paper, an extension of the graph colouring problem is introduced to model a parallel
machine scheduling problem with job incompatibility. To get closer to real-world …

Abstract Aircraft Landing Planning is challenging because the inherently limited capacity of
airport runways causes bottlenecks. This type of planning involves different stakeholders …

This work introduces the symbiotic organisms search (SOS) evolutionary algorithm to the
optimization of reservoir operation. Unlike the genetic algorithm (GA) and the water cycle …