Facility layout planning (FLP) involves a set of design problems related to the arrangement
of the elements that shape industrial production systems in a physical space. The fact that …

Facility layout problem (FLP) is defined as the placement of facilities in a plant area, with the
aim of determining the most effective arrangement in accordance with some criteria or …

Abstract Teaching-Learning-Based Optimisation (TLBO) is one of the more recently
developed metaheuristics and has been successfully applied to solve various optimisation …

Facility layout goal includes the physical arrangement about diverse departments, machine
cells/stations, machines, tools and equipments. The main objective of the Industry 4.0 is to …

A well-planned arrangement of manufacturing departments on a two-dimensional planar
region considerably increases the efficiency of its production systems, which is termed …

Recently, the Space-Air-Ground-Sea Integrated Network (SAGSIN) attracts great attention
due to its ability to provide high-speed communication services to aviation users (AUs) and …

Abstract We introduce Neural Logic Circuits (NLC), an evolutionary, weightless, and
learnable neural architecture loosely inspired by the neuroplasticity of the brain. This new …

Physical design is major key processes in integrating the circuit into the chip area in VLSI
circuit design. A netlist is accepted as input by a floorplanning stage, provided by the …

For decades, computer scientists have looked to nature for biologically inspired solutions to
computational problems; ranging from robotic control to scheduling optimization …

The running-in quality and efficiency could be improved by optimizing load, velocity and
initial surface roughness of contact surfaces. The relationship between characteristic …