This paper addresses the optimal design and planning of biomass-to-liquids (BTL) supply chains under economic and environmental criteria. The supply chain consists of multisite distributed-centralized BTL processing networks. The economic objective is measured by the total annualized cost, and the measure of environmental performance is the life cycle greenhouse gas emissions. A bi-criterion, m...

This paper presents a new bi-level multi-objective model to valorize the microgrid (MG) flexibility based on flexible power management system. It considers presence of renewable and resources including demand response program (DRP), energy storage system integrated unit electric spring with vehicles (EVs) parking (IUEE). The proposed in upper-level maximizes expected profit subject constraints....

Disasters such as earthquakes, typhoons, floods and COVID-19 continue to threaten the lives of people in all countries. In order cover basic needs victims, emergency logistics should be implemented time. Location-routing problem (LRP) tackles facility location vehicle routing simultaneously obtain overall optimization. response shortage relief materials early post-disaster stage, a multi-object...

Image location prediction is to estimate the geolocation where an image is taken. Social image contains heterogeneous contents, which makes image location prediction nontrivial. Moreover, it is observed that image content patterns and location preferences correlate hierarchically. Traditional image location prediction methods mainly adopt a single-level architecture, which is not directly adapt...

One of the most challenging issues in multi-objective problems is finding Pareto optimal points. This paper describes an algorithm based on Benders Decomposition Algorithm (BDA) which tries to find Pareto solutions. For this aim, a multi-objective facility location allocation model is proposed. In this case, an integrated BDA and epsilon constraint method are proposed and it is shown that how P...

This paper describes a methodology for transmission expansion planning (TEP) within a deregulated electricity market. Two objective functions including investment cost (IC) and congestion cost (CC) are considered. The proposed model forms a bi-level optimization problem in which upper level problem represents an independent system operator (ISO) making its decisions on investment while in the l...

Location Based Services (LBS) has become an important field of research with the rapid development of Internet-based Information Technology (IOT) technology and everywhere we use smartphones and social networks in our everyday lives. Although users can enjoy the flexibility, facility, facility and location-based services (LBS) with the Internet of Things, they may lose their privacy. An untrust...