The Scatter Search (SS) is a deterministic strategy that has been applied successfully to some combinatorial and continuous optimization problems. Cuckoo Search (CS) is heuristic search algorithm which is inspired by the reproduction strategy of cuckoos. This paper presents enhanced scatter search algorithm using CS algorithm. The improvement provides Scatter Search with random exploration for ...

The evolutionary approach called scatter search is originated from strategies for creating composite decision rules and surrogate constraints. Recent studies demonstrate the practical advantages of these approaches. Scatter search method have recently been investigated optimization technique and alternative of the other Meta heuristic methods. The scatter search is an evolutionary search method...

in this paper, the flexible job shop scheduling problem with machine flexibility and controllable process times is studied. the main idea is that the processing times of operations may be controlled by consumptions of additional resources. the purpose of this paper to find the best trade-off between processing cost and delay cost in order to minimize the total costs. the proposed model, flexibl...

In this work, a new scatter search-based approach is studied for the NP-Hard satisfiability problems, in particular for its optimization version namely max-SAT. The paper describes a scatter search algorithm enhanced with a tabu search component combined with a uniform crossover operator. The latter is used to identify promising search regions while tabu search performs an intensified search of...