In the last decade, the problem of community detection in complex networks has attracted the attention of many researchers in many domains, several methods and algorithms have been proposed to deal with this problem, many of them consider it as an optimization problem and various bio-inspired...

This book provides the reader with a broad coverage of the concepts, themes and instrumentalities of this important and evolving area of optimization. In doing so, the editors hope to encourage an even wider adoption of metaheuristic methods for assisting in problem solving, and to stimulate...

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In this paper, two natural production inventory models based on fuzzy total production inventory cost with the preference of a decision maker are introduced, and combined by natural number parameters in which values are linguistic values in natural language, crisp real number variables, and...