Metaheuristics are widely employed to solve hard optimization problems, like vehicle routing problems (VRP), for which exact solution methods impractical. In particular, local search-based metaheuristics have been successfully applied the capacitated VRP (CVRP). The CVRP aims at defining minimum-cost delivery routes a given set of identical vehicles since each only travels one route and there i...

In spite of the vast amount of medical data at our disposal, there are limitations and drawbacks of medical care. This is due to the defective medical knowledge - the restricted narrow concepts of human being, illness, etiology and treatment. This has resulted in undue emphasis on physical aspect of human existence ignoring the mental and spiritual aspects in understanding the illness and treat...

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