The transmission network expansion planning (TNEP) problem consists of determining the necessary infrastructure additions, within a planning horizon, to minimize an investment objective function while meeting some operational ...

The present paper solves the multi-level capacitated lot sizing problem with backlogging (MLCLSPB) combining a genetic algorithm with the solution of mixed-integer programming models and the improvement heuristic fix and ...

The present paper solves the multi-level capacitated lot sizing problem with backlogging (MLCLSPB) combining a genetic algorithm with the solution of mixed-integer programming models and the improvement heuristic fix and ...

This paper presents a mathematical model adapted from literature for the crop rotation problem with demand constraints (CRP-D). The main aim of the present work is to study metaheuristics and their performance in a real ...

This paper presents the Clustering Search (CS) as a new hybrid metaheuristic, which works in conjunction with other metaheuristics, managing the implementation of local search algorithms for optimization problems. Usually ...

This paper proposes three metaheuristic optimization techniques to solve the plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) charging coordination problem in electrical distribution systems (EDSs). Optimization algorithms based on tabu ...

Fuzzy clustering is an important problem which is the subject of active research in several real world applications. Fuzzy c-means (FCM) algorithm is one of the most popular fuzzy clustering techniques because it is ...