Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems applications are widespread due to its domain
independent characteristics. In this work, an attempt has been made for review on AI …

Green logistics (GL) is gaining increasing attention among academic researchers and
industrial practitioners, due to the escalating deterioration of the environment. Various green …

Combinatorial explosion is a well-known phenomenon that prevents complete algorithms
from solving many real-life combinatorial optimization problems. In many situations, heuristic …

With the construction industry shifting towards sustainable practices, it has become critical to
incorporate sustainability measures in the design and operation of buildings. Space layout …

This work presents a new optimization technique called Grenade Explosion Method (GEM).
The fundamental concepts and ideas which underlie the method are fully explained. It is …

The paper presents a genetic algorithm-based meta-heuristic to solve the facility layout
problem (FLP) in a manufacturing system, where the material flow pattern of the multi-line …

Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) is a young metaheuristic algorithm which has shown
promising results in solving many optimization problems. To date, a formal ACO-based …

Slope stability analysis of any natural or artificial slope aims at determining the factor of
safety of the slip surface that possesses the lowest factor of safety. In this study, an ant …

This work proposes a new methodology and mathematical formulation to address the facility
layout problem. The goal is to minimise the total material handling cost subjected to …

This paper investigates the problem of minimizing makespan on a single batch-processing
machine, and the machine can process multiple jobs simultaneously. Each job is …