Metaheuristics in the Service Industry

InhaltsangabeA Bicriteria Traveling Salesman Problem with Sequence Priorities.- Metaheuristics for Tourist Trip Planning.- Solving Fuzzy Multi-Item Economic Order Quantity Problems via Fuzzy Ranking Functions and Particle Swarm Optimization.- Fixed and Variable Toll Pricing in Road Networks with Direct Search Meta-Heuristics.- Scatter Search for locating a treatment plant and the necessary transfer centers in a reverse network.- Variable Neighbourhood Descent for Planning Crane Operations in a Train Terminal.- Design and Analysis of Evolutionary Algorithms for the No-wait Flow-shop Scheduling Problem.- Metaheuristics for the Index Tracking Problem.- A Hybrid Algorithm for Vehicle Routing of Less-Than-Truckload Carriers.