Local Constraints in Combinatorial Optimization

Nowadays, there is much attention for planning of container terminals in the global trade centers. The high cost of quay cranes motivates both scholars and industrial practitioners especially in the last decade to develop novel optimization models to address this dilemma. This study proposes a coordinated optimization model to cover both Quay Crane Scheduling Problem (QCSP) and Quay Crane Assig...

A classical problem of digital sequence design, first studied in the 1950s but still not well understood, is to determine those binary sequences whose aperiodic autocorrelations are collectively small according to some suitable measure. The merit factor is an important such measure, and the problem of determining the best value of the merit factor of long binary sequences has resisted decades o...

In this paper a general approach to combinatorial optimization problems with fuzzy weights is discussed. The results, valid for the interval-valued problems, are extended to the fuzzy-valued ones by exploiting the very recent notion of a gradual number. Some methods for determining the exact degrees of possible and necessary optimality and the possibility distributions of deviations of solution...

the multivariate exponentially weighted moving average (mewma) control chart is one of the best statistical control chart that are usually used to detect simultaneous small deviations on the mean of more than one cross-correlated quality characteristics. the economic design of mewma control charts involves solving a combinatorial optimization model that is composed of a nonlinear cost function ...

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