Metaheuristics for project and construction management–A state-of-the-art review

TW Liao, PJ Egbelu, BR Sarker, SS Leu - Automation in construction, 2011 - Elsevier
This paper carries out a detailed review of previous studies that employed metaheuristics to
address problems/issues encountered in the life time of a construction or engineering …

A survey on human resource allocation problem and its applications

S Bouajaja, N Dridi - Operational Research, 2017 - Springer
In this paper, we present the existing literature on the human resource allocation problem.
We study the main resolution approaches: exact, heuristic and metaheuristics methods …

[HTML][HTML] IoT resource allocation and optimization based on heuristic algorithm

AK Sangaiah, AAR Hosseinabadi, MB Shareh… - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a distributed system that connects everything via internet. IoT
infrastructure contains multiple resources and gateways. In such a system, the problem of …

Resilient food supply chain design: Modelling framework and metaheuristic solution approach

E Bottani, T Murino, M Schiavo, R Akkerman - Computers & Industrial …, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper addresses the Resilient Food Supply Chain Design (RFSCD) problem, which is
the problem of designing a food supply chain that is resilient enough to ensure business …

A PSO‐based task scheduling algorithm improved using a load‐balancing technique for the cloud computing environment

F Ebadifard, SM Babamir - Concurrency and Computation …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Dynamic on‐demand resource provisioning is one of the primary goals of the cloud
computing task scheduling process. Task scheduling is a nondeterministic polynomial time …

Intelligent fault diagnosis of rotating machinery using support vector machine with ant colony algorithm for synchronous feature selection and parameter optimization

XL Zhang, W Chen, BJ Wang, XF Chen - Neurocomputing, 2015 - Elsevier
The failure of rotating machinery can result in fatal damage and economic loss since rotating
machinery plays an important role in the modern manufacturing industry. The development …

A symbiotic organisms search algorithm with adaptive penalty function to solve multi-objective constrained optimization problems

A Panda, S Pani - Applied Soft Computing, 2016 - Elsevier
Many real world engineering optimization problems are multi-modal and associated with
constrains. The multi-modal problems involve presence of local optima and thus …

Multi-objective optimal scheduling of automated construction equipment using non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm (NSGA-III)

Y Liu, K You, Y Jiang, Z Wu, Z Liu, G Peng… - Automation in …, 2022 - Elsevier
Unstructured and variable construction sites bring challenges that can be addressed with
the adoption of the flexible earthwork scheduling problem (FESP), which requires …

[HTML][HTML] A binary Bird Swarm Optimization based load balancing algorithm for cloud computing environment

K Mishra, SK Majhi - Open Computer Science, 2021 - degruyter.com
Task scheduling and load balancing are a concern for service providers in the cloud
computing environment. The problem of scheduling tasks and balancing loads in a cloud is …

Bi-objective ant colony optimization approach to optimize production and maintenance scheduling

A Berrichi, F Yalaoui, L Amodeo… - Computers & Operations …, 2010 - Elsevier
This paper presents an algorithm based on Ant Colony Optimization paradigm to solve the
joint production and maintenance scheduling problem. This approach is developed to deal …