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 …

Initialization of metaheuristics is a crucial topic that lacks a comprehensive and systematic
review of the state of the art. Providing such a review requires in‐depth study and …

The design of evolutionary algorithms has typically been focused on efficiently solving a
single optimization problem at a time. Despite the implicit parallelism of population-based …

Put Predictive Analytics into ActionLearn the basics of Predictive Analysis and Data Mining
through an easy to understand conceptual framework and immediately practice the concepts …

When SIAM asked us to prepare a new edition of this book after less than three years from
publication, we expected a light duty. Just the correction of some typos and imprecisions …

During the past twenty years, developments in the manufacturing world have revolutionized
many aspects of the production process. The introduction of computer technology and …

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 …

GRASP is a multi-start metaheuristic for combinatorial optimization problems, in which each
iteration consists basically of two phases: construction and local search. The construction …

We propose a new nature inspired metaheuristic approach based on the V flight formation of
the migrating birds which is proven to be an effective formation in energy saving. Its …

The quadratic assignment problem (QAP) was introduced by Koopmans and Beckmann in
1957 as a mathematical model for the location of a set of indivisible economical activities …