Simulation-guided beam search for neural combinatorial optimization

J Choo, YD Kwon, J Kim, J Jae… - Advances in …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Neural approaches for combinatorial optimization (CO) equip a learning mechanism to
discover powerful heuristics for solving complex real-world problems. While neural …

A new class of hard problem instances for the 0–1 knapsack problem

J Jooken, P Leyman, P De Causmaecker - European Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
The 0–1 knapsack problem is an important optimization problem, because it arises as a
special case of a wide variety of optimization problems and has been generalized in several …

Method for designing fuel-efficient highway longitudinal slopes for intelligent vehicles in eco-driving scenarios

W Qi, Z Zou, L Ruan, J Wu - Applied Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
Reasonable road design can not only improve traffic efficiency, ensure driving safety, reduce
construction costs, but also reduce the energy consumption of road transportation. However …

On monte carlo tree search for weighted vertex coloring

C Grelier, O Goudet, JK Hao - European Conference on Evolutionary …, 2022 - Springer
This work presents the first study of using the popular Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS)
method combined with dedicated heuristics for solving the Weighted Vertex Coloring …

Automated conceptual design of mechanisms based on Thompson Sampling and Monte Carlo Tree Search

J Mao, Y Zhu, G Chen, C Yan, W Zhang - Applied Soft Computing, 2025 - Elsevier
Conceptual design of mechanisms is a crucial part of achieving product innovation as
mechanisms perform the transmission and transformation of specific motions in the machine …

A data-driven approach to solving the container relocation problem with uncertainties

Z Zhang, KC Tan, W Qin, EP Chew, Y Li - Advanced Engineering …, 2025 - Elsevier
Container relocations are inevitable and reduce terminal efficiency, making their
optimization a critical research focus. Scholars have extensively studied the Container …

A policy-based Monte Carlo tree search method for container pre-marshalling

Z Wang, C Zhou, A Che, J Gao - International Journal of Production …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The container pre-marshalling problem (CPMP) aims to minimise the number of reshuffling
moves, ultimately achieving an optimised stacking arrangement in each bay based on the …

Multi-step carbon emissions forecasting model for industrial process based on a new strategy and machine learning methods

Y Hu, Y Man, J Ren, J Zhou, Z Zeng - Process Safety and Environmental …, 2024 - Elsevier
The rising industrial sector capacity increases carbon emissions, necessitating a low-carbon
transformation for global sustainability. Accurate multi-step forecasting of industrial carbon …

Research on multi-objective flow shop scheduling optimization in supply chain environment based on Fuzzy Relevance Entropy Method

Z Luo, Y Tan, G Zhu, Y **a… - Advances in Mechanical …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
For the multi-objective flow shop scheduling problem in the supply chain environment, this
paper proposes the Fuzzy Relevance Entropy method (FREM) to solve the adaptive value …

Expectation analysis for bounding solutions of the 0–1 knapsack problem

FA Morales, JA Martínez - Computational and Applied Mathematics, 2024 - Springer
In this paper, an entirely novel discrete probabilistic model is presented to generate 0–1
Knapsack Problem instances. We analyze the expected behavior of the greedy algorithm …