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Comments on: Recent progress on the combinatorial diameter of polytopes and simplicial complexes

Terlaky, Tamás - In: TOP: An Official Journal of the Spanish Society of … 21 (2013) 3, pp. 461-467

This short discussion paper comments on Francisco Santos’ excellent review paper Recent Progress on the Combinatorial Diameter of Polytopes and Simplicial Complexes. We provide some notes on a few closely related topics that were not covered in the survey paper, such as: some relaxed version...

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Optimal Operation of Pressurized Irrigation Networks with Several Supply Sources

García, I. Fernández; Díaz, J. Rodríguez; Poyato, … - In: Water Resources Management 27 (2013) 8, pp. 2855-2869

The evolution of water distribution systems to pressurized networks has improved water use efficiency, but also significantly increased energy consumption. However, sustainable irrigated agriculture must be characterized by the reasonable and efficient use of both water and energy. Irrigation...

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Design of Water Distribution Networks using a Pseudo-Genetic Algorithm and Sensitivity of Genetic Operators

Mora-Melia, D.; Iglesias-Rey, P.; Martinez-Solano, F.; … - In: Water Resources Management 27 (2013) 12, pp. 4149-4162

Genetic algorithms (GA) are optimization techniques that are widely used in the design of water distribution networks …

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Graph 3-coloring with a hybrid self-adaptive evolutionary algorithm

Fister, Iztok; Mernik, Marjan; Filipič, Bogdan - In: Computational Optimization and Applications 54 (2013) 3, pp. 741-770

algorithm of Hertz and de Werra, and the hybrid evolutionary algorithm of Galinier and Hao. The performance of these algorithms …: to investigate the behavior of the tested algorithms in the phase transition, to identify what impact hybridization with … the performance of the graph-coloring algorithms. The results indicate that the performance of the hybrid self …

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A methodology for design for warranty with focus on reliability and warranty policies

Ambad, Prashant M.; Kulkarni, Makarand S. - In: Journal of Advances in Management Research 10 (2013) 1, pp. 139-155

Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to develop a conceptual framework that integrates the technology and commercial issues early at the design stage to minimize warranty costs in the most effective and efficient manner and also to develop a model for optimization of warranty with specific...

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Web analytics of user path tracing and a novel algorithm for generating recommendations in Open Journal Systems

Taraghi, Behnam; Grossegger, Martin; Ebner, Martin; … - In: Online Information Review 37 (2013) 5, pp. 672-691

Purpose – The use of articles from scientific journals is an important part of research-based teaching at universities. The selection of relevant work from among the increasing amount of scientific literature can be problematic; the challenge is to find relevant recommendations, especially when...

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An incremental least squares algorithm for large scale linear classification

Cassioli, A.; Chiavaioli, A.; Manes, C.; Sciandrone, M. - In: European Journal of Operational Research 224 (2013) 3, pp. 560-565

-of-the-art algorithms for large scale linear classification. …

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Application of genetic algorithms for joint optimization of signal setting parameters and dynamic traffic assignment for the real network data

Varia, H.R.; Gundaliya, P.J.; Dhingra, S.L. - In: Research in Transportation Economics 38 (2013) 1, pp. 35-44

(MSA) is modified and used to arrive at the DUE condition. The artificial intelligence technique of genetic algorithms (GAs …

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Multistage distribution system expansion planning considering distributed generation using hybrid evolutionary algorithms

Gitizadeh, Mohsen; Vahed, Ali Azizi; Aghaei, Jamshid - In: Applied Energy 101 (2013) C, pp. 655-666

The main goal of this paper is to present a Multistage Distribution network Expansion Planning (MDEP) problem in the presence of Distributed Generations (DGs) in a multi-objective optimization framework. The proposed model simultaneously optimizes two objectives: minimization of investment and...

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Solving hybrid flow shop scheduling problems using bat algorithm

Marichelvam, M.K.; Prabaharan, T.; Yang, Xin-She; Geetha, M. - In: International Journal of Logistics Economics and … 5 (2013) 1, pp. 15-29

This paper investigates the multistage hybrid flow shop (HFS) scheduling problems using the new bat algorithm. A HFS is the generalisation of flowshop with multiple machines. HFS is one of the important scheduling problems that represent many industries like iron and steel, chemical, textile and...

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