This paper proposed a novel distributed memetic evolutionary model, where four modules exploration, intensified exploitation, knowledge transfer, and restart are coevolved to maximize their strengths achieve superior global optimality. Distributed exploration evolves three independent populations by heterogenous operators. Intensified exploitation an external elite archive in parallel with bala...

Customer service level is of prime importance in today competitive world and has various dimensions with delivery quality being one of the most important ones. Delivery quality has several parameters such as deliver time window options, time window size, etc. In this paper we focus on one of these parameters, namely time window setting. It has a direct impact upon customer satisfaction and busi...

We present a stochastic quantum computing algorithm that can prepare any eigenvector of Hamiltonian within selected energy interval $[E\ensuremath{-}\ensuremath{\epsilon},E+\ensuremath{\epsilon}]$. In order to reduce the spectral weight all other eigenvectors by suppression factor $\ensuremath{\delta}$, required computational effort scales as $O[|\mathrm{log}\ensuremath{\delta}|/(p\ensuremath{\...