Meta-heuristics optimization algorithms in engineering, business, economics, and finance

An improved particle swarm optimization for optimal power flow / Dieu Ngoc Vo, Peter Schegner -- The use of soft computing for optimization in business, economics, and finance / Petr Dostál -- Hybrid linear search, genetic algorithms, and simulated annealing for fuzzy non-linear industrial production planning problems / P. Vasant -- Metaheuristic algorithms for supply chain management problems / Ata Allah Taleizadeh, Leopoldo Eduardo Cárdenas-Barrón -- Instance-specific parameter tuning for meta-heuristics / Jana Ries, Patrick Beullens, Yang Wang -- Investigating of hybrid meta-heuristics to solve the large-scale multi-source weber problems and performance measuring of them with statistical tests / Abdolsalam Ghaderi -- Analysing the returns-earnings relationship: Dempster-Shafer theory and evolutionary computation based analyses using the classification and ranking belief simplex / Malcolm J. Beynon, Mark Clatworthy -- Support vector machine based mobile robot motion control and obstacle avoidance / Lihua Jiang, Mingcong Deng -- A hybrid meta-heuristic to solve a multi-criteria HFS problem / Fatima Ghedjati, Safa Khalouli -- Pure and hybrid metaheuristics for the response time variability problem / Alberto García-Villoria, Albert Corominas, Rafael Pastor -- Hybrid metaheuristics algorithms for inventory management problems / Ata Allah Taleizadeh, Leopoldo Eduardo Cárdenas-Barrón -- ANN-based self-tuning frequency control design for an isolated microgrid / H. Bevrani, F. Habibi, S. Shokoohi -- Soccer game optimization: an innovative integration of evolutionary algorithm and swarm intelligence algorithm / Hindriyanto Dwi Purnomo, Hui-Ming Wee -- Two stage capacitated facility location problem: Lagrangian based heuristics / Igor Litvinchev ... [et al.] -- Generators maintenance scheduling using music-inspired harmony search algorithm / Laiq Khan, Rabiah Badar, Sidra Mumtaz -- Usage of metaheuristics in engineering: a literature review / Ozlem Senvar, Ebru Turanoglu, Cengiz Kahraman -- Online clustering and outlier detection / Baoying Wang, Aijuan Dong -- Optimal ordering of activities of new product development projects with time and cost considerations / Hisham M. Abdelsalam, Amany Magdy -- Application of meta-heuristic optimization algorithms in electric power systems / N.I. Voropai ... [et al.] -- A gravitational search algorithm approach for optimizing closed-loop logistics network / Abdolhossein Sadrnia ... [et al.]