in this paper a new method is proposed for path planning of planar manipulators amid obstacles through mathematical programming in a way that the robot’s links avoid collision with obstacles throughout their motion from an initial to a goal configuration. after inputting the workspace geometry, the shortest feasible path for the robot’s end-effector is planned toward its goal position using gen...

Optimization of the complete manufacturing and supply process has become a critical ingredient for gaining a competitive advantage. This article provides a unified mathematical framework for modeling manufacturing cell configuration and raw material supplier selection in a two-level supply chain network. The commonly used manufacturing design parameters along with supplier selection and a subco...

Collection of waste is an important logistic activity within any city. In this study, a mathematical model is proposed in order to reduce the cost of waste collection. First a mixed-integer nonlinear programming model is provided including a waste collection routing problem, so that, there is a balance between the distance between trashcans, and the similarity of the trashcans in terms of th...

There are various automatic programming models inspired by evolutionary computation techniques. Due to the importance of devising an automatic mechanism to explore the complicated search space of mathematical problems where numerical methods fails, evolutionary computations are widely studied and applied to solve real world problems. One of the famous algorithm in optimization problem is shuffl...

The aim of this study is to compare three mathematical programing models used for sustainable land and farm management. sample the comparison was 219 agricultural holdings participating as beneficiaries measure ‘Modernization holdings’ in Rural Development Plan at Region Central Macedonia Greece. Using crop plan these farms programming calculate optimum solution under different conflicting goal...

The objective of this paper is to analyze entropy based Vendor Selection Problem (VSP) model by using fuzzy mathematical programming and primal-dual geometric programming method. Here we have extended the unconstrained convex programming approach to solve VSP model with inequality constraints without adding artificial variables. By t-norm based fuzzy mathematical programming technique and the d...

in this paper we try to introduce a new approach and study the notion of efficiency under a multi objectives linear programming problem in the university by using analysis of hierarchy process (ahp)‎. ‎to this end‎, ‎we first extract some effective parameters due to efficiency offices in university and then prioritized these parameters by the ahp method‎. ‎hence‎, ‎we could classify the most im...

the control of fluidized-bed operations processes is still one of the major areas of research due to the complexity of the process and the inherent nonlinearity and varying dynamics involved in its operation. there are varieties of problems in chemical engineering that can be formulated as nonlinear programming (nlps). the quality of the developed solution significantly affects the performance ...

This paper considers a bi-objective mathematical model for locations of landfills, transfer stations and material recovery facilities (MRFs) in order to serve the entire regions and simultaneously identify the capacities of landfills. This is a mixed-integer programming (MIP) model, whose objectives are to minimize the total cost and pollution simultaneously. To validate the model, a numerical ...