Inventory management requires thousands or millions of individual transactions each year. Classification the items influences results inventory management. Traditionally, this is usually classified with considering an annual dollar usage criterion but maybe other criteria such as lead time, criticality, perishability, cost, and demand type can be affected on that classification. have more than ...

Solving optimization problems is an ever-growing subject with enormous number of algorithms. Examples such algorithms are Scatter Search (SS) and genetic Modifying improving can be done by adding diversity guidance to them. Chaotic maps quite sensitive the initial point, which means even a very slight change in value point would result dramatic sequence produced chaotic map Arnold's Cat Map. Ma...

This tutorial will focus on several new real-world applications that have been developed using an integrated set of methods, including Tabu Search, Scatter Search, Mixed Integer Programming, and Neural Networks, combined with simulation. Applications include project portfolio optimization and customer relationship management.

In this work we consider the application of two metaheuristics, namely evolution strategies and scatter search, to the problem of fitting rectangular signals to time-data series. The application background is to search for exoplanet-transit signals in stellar photometric observation data.

In this paper, we study a resource-constrained project scheduling problem in which a set of project activities have due dates. If the finish time of each one of these activities is not equal to its due date, an earliness or a tardiness cost exists for each tardy or early period. The objective is to minimize the sum of discounted weighted earliness-tardiness penalty costs of these activities. Sc...

In this report, we are mainly interested in Scatter Search which is an evolutionary heuristic, proposed two decades ago, that uses linear combination of a population subset to create new solutions. A special operator is used to ensure their feasibility and to improve their quality. We propose hereafter a Scatter Search approach to the Quadratic Assignment Problem (QAP) problem. The basic method...