Evolutionary neighborhood discovery algorithm for agricultural routing planning in multiple fields

A Quantum Evolutionary Algorithm for the Vehicle Routing Problem with Single-sided Time Window Setting

Customer service level is of prime importance in today competitive world and has various dimensions with delivery quality being one of the most important ones. Delivery quality has several parameters such as deliver time window options, time window size, etc. In this paper we focus on one of these parameters, namely time window setting. It has a direct impact upon customer satisfaction and busi...

Evolutionary Algorithm for Multiple

A multiple criteria algorithm for planning the itinerary of mobile sink in wireless sensor networks

The mobile sink can increase the efficiency of wireless sensor networks. It moves in a monitored environment and collects the network nodes information. Thus, by the sink we can balance the power consumption and increases the network lifetime. Determining path of the sink's movement is usually modeled as an optimization problem where finding optimal solutions require collecting value of all the...

Investigating Zone Pricing in a Location-Routing Problem Using a Variable Neighborhood Search Algorithm

In this paper, we assume a firm tries to determine the optimal price, vehicle route and location of the depot in each zone to maximise its profit. Therefore, in this paper zone pricing is studied which contributes to the literature of location-routing problems (LRP). Zone pricing is one of the most important pricing policies that are prevalently used by many companies. The proposed problem is v...

Evolutionary Algorithm for Drug Discovery [EAfDD]

In essence the program explores the search space by generating random molecules, determining their fitness (based on a variety of criteria) and then breeding a new generation from the fittest individuals. The search space (in theory any combination of any elements in any order) is constrained by the use of a subset of elements (e.g. organic) and a list of fragments (molecular parts that are kno...