The optimal setting of directional overcurrent relays (DOCRs) ensures the fault detection and clearing in minimum possible operation time. Directional protective relaying is carried out to coordinate relay settings a meshed network presence distributed generation. main goal DOCR coordination find time dial (TDS) pickup multiplier (PMS) reach total all primary constraints. Due complexity mixed i...

Retail shelf space management, which is one of the most complex aspects retailing, can be defined as determining when, where and in what quantities products will displayed dynamically updating display considering changing market conditions. Although it an important problem, research papers that study rectangular arrangement to optimize profit are limited. In this paper, we determine facing unit...

In this paper, a new multi-objective integer non-linear programming model is developed for designing citrus three-echelon supply chain network. Short harvest period, product specifications, high perished rate, and special storing and distributing conditions make the modeling of citrus supply chain more complicated than other ones. The proposed model aims to minimize network costs includin...

The determination of the Ultimate Pit Limit (UPL) is the first step in the open pit mine planning process. In this stage that parts of the mineral deposit that are economic to mine are determined. There are several mathematical, heuristic and meta-heuristic algorithms to determine UPL. The optimization criterion in these algorithms is maximization of the total profit whilst satisfying...

Phase balancing is a classical optimization problem in power distribution grids that involve phase swapping of the loads and generators to reduce loss. The non-linear integer and, hence, it usually solved using heuristic algorithms. This paper proposes mathematical reformulation transforms phase-balancing low-voltage networks into mixed-integer convex quadratic model. To consider both conventio...

This paper proposes a mixed integer programming model for single-item capacitated lot-sizing problem with setup times, safety stock, demand shortages, outsourcing and inventory capacity. Due to the complexity of problem, three meta-heuristics algorithms named simulated annealing (SA), vibration damping optimization (VDO) and harmony search (HS) have been used to solve this model. Additionally, ...

the aim of this study is to propose a new mixed integer linear programming (milp) model to find the minimum required number of yard cranes, rubber tyred gantry cranes (rtgcs), for completion the total amount of works at the end of planning horizon. in other word, we find the optimal number of yard cranes in a container terminal which completes the total amount of works. the paper supports the p...

research interests have been focused on the concept of penalizing jobs both for being early and for being tardy because not only of modern competitive industrial challenges of providing a variety of products at a very low cost by smoothing productions but also of its increasing and exciting computer applications. here, sequencing approaches of the mixed- model just-in-time production systems is...

This paper considers a scheduling problem of a set of independent jobs on unrelated parallel machines (UPMs) that minimizesthe maximum completion time (i.e., makespan or ), maximum earliness ( ), and maximum tardiness ( ) simultaneously. Jobs have non-identical due dates, sequence-dependent setup times and machine-dependentprocessing times. A multi-objective mixed-integer linear programmi...