Supply chain network (SCN) design is to provide an optimal platform for efficient and effective supply chain management. It is an important and strategic operations management problem in supply chain… (More)
This paper presents a genetic algorithm (GA) with specialized encoding, initialization, and local search operators to optimize the design of communication network topologies. This NP-hard problem is… (More)
In many computer communications network design problems, such as those faced by hospitals, universities, research centers, and water distribution systems, the topology is fixed because of… (More)
In this paper, we introduce a new variant of Location-Routing Problem (LRP), namely the LRP with simultaneous pickup and delivery (LRPSPD). The LRPSPD is defined as finding locations of the depots… (More)
This paper deals with multi-objective optimization of a single-model stochastic assembly line balancing problem with parallel stations. The objectives are as follows: (1) minimization of the… (More)