Abstract: Small to medium sized transportation and logistics companies are usually constrained by limited computing and IT professional resources on implementing an efficient parallel metaheuristic ...

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Abstract: Selection of dispatching modes for a transit system is a very important aspect of the schedule problem. This paper aims to optimize and monitor the scheduling and dispatching of public ...

We use heuristics to solve computationally difficult problems where optimal solutions are too expensive to deploy, hard to manage, or otherwise inefficient. Our prior work, MetaOpt, shows many of the ...

The problem of quay crane downtime continues to challenge container terminals across the globe, particularly in fully and partially automated ones like Tangier MED Port in Morocco. The persistent ...

Aircraft flat-tail is a discrete manufacturing process for complex aviation products. Its assembly process involves multiple assembly frames, multiple components, and mixed-flow assembly of various ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbots are rapidly becoming a vital part of healthcare, revolutionizing how providers and patients interact. From booking appointments to triaging symptoms and offering ...

In computing, we have a great diversity of tools at our disposal to perform any given task. We know many different sorting algorithms, cache eviction policies, hash functions, compression algorithms, ...

Finding bipartite matchings is one of the oldest and most well-studied problems in computer science. This problem comes up in many guises, such as when matching donors to recipients for organ ...

In the table, the row index represents the sequence number of the operation, the column index represents the sequence number of the machine, and the numerical value represents the corresponding ...