the planning of a rail transit system is a complex process involving the determination of station locations and rail line alignments connecting the stations. There are many requirements and constraints to be considered in the planning process, with complex correlations and interactions, necessitating the application of optimization models in order to realize reliable and cost-effective rail tra...

Communication with Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites requires the set up of a ground station which is a complex and costly installation. Moreover, a LEO satellite is accessible only during certain time slots from a given ground station. In other words, access to LEO satellites is on an intermittent basis and is constrained by the availability of ground stations. The work presented in this paper ...

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The Automated Wet-etch Station (AWS) is one of the most critical stages of a modern semiconductor manufacturing system (SMS), which has to simultaneously deal with many complex constraints and limited resources. Due to its inherent complexity, real-world automated wet-etch station scheduling problems are very difficult to solve using traditional mathematical formulations. Thus, heuristic, metah...