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Open AccessSolving the uncapacitated facility location problem under uncertainty: a hybrid tabu search with path-relinking simheuristic approach
The uncapacitated facility location problem (UFLP) is a well-known combinatorial optimization problem that finds practical applications in several fields, such as logistics and telecommunication networks. Whil...
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Classification System to Detect Diseases in Apples by Using a Convolutional Neural Network
Apples are a great fruit that is well known and is consumed around the world by all people. The importance of having a good quality in these fruits is huge because of to the nutrients for human consumptions an...
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Asset and Liability Risk Management in Financial Markets
Most financial organisations depend on their ability to match the assets and liabilities they hold. This managerial challenge has been traditionally modelled as a series of optimisation problems, which have be...
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A biased-randomized iterated local search for the vehicle routing problem with optional backhauls
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Optimization of Task Allocations in Cloud to Fog Environment with Application to Intelligent Transportation Systems
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Thresholding Algorithm Applied to Chest X-Ray Images with Pneumonia
Chest radiography is one of the most widely used imaging techniques for the detection and diagnosis of lung diseases. However, the correct extraction of information in these images is a tedious and challenging...
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Agile Computational Intelligence for Supporting Hospital Logistics During the COVID-19 Crisis
This chapter describes a case study regarding the use of ‘agile’ computational intelligence for supporting logistics in Barcelona’s hospitals during the COVID-19 crisis in 2020. Due to the lack of sanitary pro...
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A variable neighborhood search simheuristic for project portfolio selection under uncertainty
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A biased-randomized variable neighborhood search for sustainable multi-depot vehicle routing problems
Urban freight transport is becoming increasingly complex due to a boost in the volume of products distributed and the associated number of delivery services. In addition, stakeholders’ preferences and city log...
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Solving large-scale time capacitated arc routing problems: from real-time heuristics to metaheuristics
This paper discusses the Time Capacitated Arc Routing Problem (TCARP) and introduces a heuristic and a metaheuristic algorithm for solving large-size instances of it. The TCARP is a realistic extension of the ...
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A New Randomized Procedure to Solve the Location Routing Problem
The Location Routing Problem (LRP) is one of the most important challenging problems in supply chain design since it includes all decision levels in operations management. Due to its complexity, heuristics app...
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A Biased-Randomized Algorithm for the Uncapacitated Facility Location Problem
Facility Location Problems (FLPs) have been widely studied in the fields of Operations Research and Computer Science. This is due to the fact that FLPs have numerous practical applications in different areas, ...
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A Biased-Randomized Heuristic for the Home Healthcare Routing Problem
The home healthcare routing problem (HHRP) refers to the problem of allocating and routing caregivers to care-dependent people at their homes. It has been mostly tackled in the literature as a rich vehicle rou...
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A Biased-Randomized Heuristic for the Waste Collection Problem in Smart Cities
This paper describes an efficient heuristic to solve the Waste Collection Problem (WCP), which is formulated as a special instance of the well-known Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP). Our approach makes use of a ...
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Multi-capacity, Multi-depot, Multi-product VRP with Heterogeneous Fleets and Demand Exceeding Depot Capacity
This paper presents a four-step metaheuristic for addressing a rich and real-life vehicle routing problem. A set of customers request several products that must be delivered using a heterogeneous fleet of truc...
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Using simheuristics to promote horizontal collaboration in stochastic city logistics
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