We analyze combinatorial optimization problems with ordinal, i.e., non-additive, objective functions that assign categories (like good, medium and bad) rather than cost coefficients to the elements of feasible solutions. review different optimality concepts for ordinal discuss their similarities differences. then focus on two prevalent are shown be equivalent. Our main lies investigation a bije...

toluidine blue o (tbo) is a cationic dye which is extensively used in the industries. in the present paper a simple and efficient wet chemical method was introduced for removal of tbo from waste aqueous solution. magnetic multi-walled carbon nanotubes were synthesized using commercially available multi-wall carbon nanotubes and magnetic iron oxide nanoparticles which were examined for removal o...

in this study, the application of gray relational analysis (gra) and taguchi method in multi-criteria process parameters selection of turning operation has been investigated. the process responses under study are material removal rate (mrr) and surface roughness (sr); in turn, the input parameters include cutting speed, feed rate, depth of cut and nose radius of the cutting tool. the proposed a...

the national bridge stock of iran consists of about 330,000 bridges, of which around 50% are older than 30 years. since 2010, iran road maintenance & transportation organization has started implementing a comprehensive bridge management system in order to manage this aged stock efficiently. to predict future conditions of bridge stock, a heuristic numerical method is presented. this methodology...

abstract. when a production facility is designed, there are various parameters affecting the number machines such as production capacity and reliability. it is often a tedious task to optimize different objectives simultaneously. the other issue is the uncertainty in many design parameters which makes it difficult to reach a desirable solution. in this paper, we present a new mathematical model...

ABSTRACT This paper proposes a new Multi-Objective Equilibrium Optimizer (MOEO) to handle complex optimization problems, including real-world engineering design problems. The (EO) is recently reported physics-based metaheuristic algorithm, and it has been inspired by the models used predict equilibrium state dynamic state. A similar procedure utilized in MOEO combining different target search s...

As the computer technology improves rapidly, the scale of software has increased greatly, which makes it more and more difficult to find a bug in software. As a result, the enhancement of software quality and reliability has become an important task in the field of software engineering. Test is an important step that guarantees software quality and reliability. We put forward a novel multi-obje...