The capacitor placement problem for radial distribution networks aims to determine capacitor types, sizes, locations and control scheme. This is a combinatorial problem that can be formulated as a mixed integer nonlinear ...

The capacitor placement problem for radial distribution networks aims to determine capacitor types, sizes, locations and control scheme. This is a combinatorial problem that can be formulated as a mixed integer nonlinear ...

In this paper, an expert and interactive system for developing protection system for overhead and radial distribution feeders is proposed. In this system the protective devices can be allocated through heuristic and an ...

This paper proposes a new strategy to reduce the combinatorial search space of a mixed integer linear programming (MILP) problem. The construction phase of greedy randomized adaptive search procedure (GRASP-CP) is employed ...

The fine-tuning of the algorithms parameters, specially, in metaheuristics, is not always trivial and often is performed by ad hoc methods according to the problem under analysis. Usually, incorrect settings influence both ...

In the last few years, crop rotation has gained attention due to its economic, environmental and social importance which explains why it can be highly beneficial for farmers. This paper presents a mathematical model for ...

In universities, before the beginning of each school year, it is held the distribution of classes among the available teachers. For such task, different constraints must be fulfilled like preventing a teacher to teach in ...

This paper formulates the 3D Container ship Loading Planning Problem (3D CLPP) and also proposes a new and compact representation to efficiently solve it. Containers on board a Container ship are placed in vertical stacks, ...

This work presents a multi-start metaheuristic for transmission system expansion planning. The transmission network is modelled as a transportation network. The method progresses in two stages: constructive phase and local ...

In this paper the genetic algorithm of Chu and Beasley (GACB) is applied to solve the static and multistage transmission expansion planning problem. The characteristics of the GACB, and some modifications that were done, ...