Shishvan, Masoud Soleymani; Sattarvand, Javad - In: European Journal of Operational Research 240 (2015) 3, pp. 825-836
The problem of long-term production planning of open pit mines is a large combinatorial problem. Application of mathematical programming approaches suffer from reduced computational efficiency due to the large amount of decision variables. This paper presents a new metaheuristic approximation...