Many brain–computer interface (BCI) studies overlook the channel optimization due to its inherent complexity. However, a careful channel selection increases the performance and users’ comfort while reducing the cost of the system. Evolutionary meta-heuristics, which have demonstrated their...

In a disaster scenario, relief items distribution is required as early as possible for the disaster victims to reduce the associated risks. For the distribution tasks, an effective and efficient relief items distribution model is essential to generate relief items distribution schedules to...

The Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) has recently piqued the interest of researchers seeking to improve the efficiency and efficacy of the transportation system in distributing commodities. Many scholars have proposed using a heterogeneous fleet in vehicle routing to minimize distribution costs...

The algorithm for optimization of a credit portfolio has not been fully demonstrated. This paper fills the gap in the literature by presenting a general approach for optimizing a credit portfolio by minimizing the default risk of the entire portfolio. Default risk is measured with quadratic...

Dispatching rules are simple but efficient heuristics to solve multi-objective job shop scheduling problems, particularly useful to face the challenges of dynamic shop environments. A promising method to automatically evolve such rules represents genetic programming based hyper-heuristic...

This research proposed an optimization method using a solution technique based on two well-known techniques, differential evolution and particle swarm optimization, to tackle a multi-visit and multi-period workforce scheduling and routing problem in field service operation of a sugarcane mill...

In this paper a new method is proposed to identify parameters of the photovoltaic (PV) solar cells model. The method is a combination of a heuristic algorithm called flexible improved particle swarm optimization (FIPSO) and a gradient based algorithm called sequential quadratic programming...