Environmental problems and the principles of sustainable development in projects and planning processes have become increasingly important over the last years. In this sense, the feasibility studies should involve not only the technical elements and the social-economic aspects but also the factors related to the interferences of the operation with the environmental components. This means that s...

A theorem was recently introduced to establish a relationship betweengoal programming and fuzzy programming for vectormaximum problems.In this short note it is shown that the relationship does not exist underall circumstances. The necessary correction is proposed.

امروزه توسعه سیستم‌های کارآمد و اثربخش بهداشت درمان به یکی از نگرانی‌های اصلی دولت‌ها تصمیم‌گیرندگان تبدیل شده است. تأمین به‌موقع دارو کارایی سیستم موجودی توزیع، نقشی حیاتی در زنجیره بیمارستانی دارند برای افزایش این فعالیت‌ها، فرآیند تصمیم‌گیری مناسب مدیریت ضروری نظر می‌رسد. پژوهش یک مدل دوهدفه به‌صورت برنامه‌ریزی خطی عدد صحیح مختلط جریان اطلاعات ارائه اهداف حداقل­کردن هزینه‌های خرید، نگهداری، ...

In this work we consider a multiobjective open shop scheduling problem with uncertain processing times and flexible due dates, both modelled using fuzzy sets. We adopt a goal programming model based on lexicographic multiobjective optimisation of both makespan and due-date satisfaction and propose a particle swarm algorithm to solve the resulting problem. We present experimental results which s...

Bilevel optimization problems with multivalued objective functions in both levels are first replaced by a problem with a parametric lower level using a convex combination of the lower level objectives. Thus a nonconvex multiobjective bilevel optimization problem arises which is then transformed into a parametric bilevel programming problem. The investigated problem has been considered in the pa...

Identifying the processes by which human cultures spread across different populations is one of the most topical objectives shared among different fields of study. Seminal works have analyzed a variety of data and attempted to determine whether empirically observed patterns are the result of demic and/or cultural diffusion. This special issue collects articles exploring several themes (from mod...

Multi-objective analysis is a popular tool in many economic, managerial, constructional, etc. problems. The objective of this research is to develop and implement a methodology for multi-objective optimization of multi-alternative decisions in road construction. After a rough overview of multi-objective decision support for assessment of road design alternatives multi-objective optimization wit...

This paper presents a new approach to handle constraints using evolutionary algorithms. The new technique treats constraints as objectives, and uses a multiobjective optimization approach to solve the restated single-objective optimization problem. The new approach is compared against other numerical and evolutionary optimization techniques in several engineering optimization problems with diie...