Although Genetic algorithm (GA), Ant colony (AC) and Particle swarm optimization algorithm (PSO) have already been extended to various types of engineering problems, the effects of initial sampling beside constraints in the efficiency of algorithms, is still an interesting field. In this paper we show that, initial sampling with a special series of constraints play an important role in the conv...

The traveling salesman problem (TSP) is one of the most important combinational optimization problems that have nowadays received much attention because of its practical applications in industrial and service problems. In this paper, a hybrid two-phase meta-heuristic algorithm called MACSGA used for solving the TSP is presented. At the first stage, the TSP is solved by the modified ant colony s...

A hybrid particle swarm optimization (PSO) for multi-machine time scheduling problem (MTSP) with multicycles is proposed in this paper to choose the best starting time for each machine in each cycle under pre-described time window and a set of precedence machines for each machine; to minimize the total penalty cost. We developed hybrid algorithm by using a combination between PSO and Genetic Al...

In this research, we developed a framework to execute genetic algorithms (GA) in various parallel environments. GA researchers can prepare implementations of GA operators and fitness functions using this framework. We have prepared several types of communication library in various parallel environments. Combining GA implementations and our libraries, GA researchers can benefit from parallel pro...

Cell Formation (CF) is the initial step in the configuration of cell assembling frameworks. This paper proposes a new mathematical model for the CF problem considering aspects of production planning, namely inventory, backorder, and subcontracting. In this paper, for the first time, backorder is considered in cell formation problem. The main objective is to minimize the total fixed and variable...

Use of heuristic methods is common to find the solutions to the optimization problems for scientific and real time. Problems such as Travelling Salesman (TSP) require more accurate solution which is tried by various optimization methods. Research in this direction shows the use of Genetic algorithms (GA) as promising candidate and is preferred over other optimization methods. Firstly due to the...

Previous studies by the authors have indicated that pseudo-random number generator (PRNG) quality has little e ect on the performance of a simple genetic algorithm (GA). In this paper we examine this subject further, in the context of what we call the \granularity hypothesis. We detail a set of PRNG quality tests tailored speci cally to the uses of randomness in a simple GA. We explain the appl...

nowadays network-on-chips is used instead of system-on-chips for better performance. this paper presents a new algorithm to find a shorter path, and shows that genetic algorithm is a potential technique for solving routing problem for mesh topology in on-chip-network.

in this paper, we develop a capacitated location-covering model considering interval values for demand and service parameters. we also consider flexibility on distance standard for covering demand nodes by the servers. we use the satisfaction degree to represent the constraint of service capacity. the proposed model belongs to the class of mixed integer programming models. our model can be redu...

Engineering field has inherently many combinatorial optimization problems which are hard to solve in some definite interval of time especially when input size is big. Although traditional algorithms yield most optimal answers, they need large amount of time to solve the problems. A new branch of algorithms known as evolutionary algorithms solve these problems in less time. Such algorithms have ...