time-dependent vehicle routing problem is one of the most applicable but least-studied variants of routing and scheduling problems. in this paper, a novel mathematical formulation of time-dependent vehicle routing problems with heterogeneous fleet, hard time widows and multiple depots, is proposed. to deal with the traffic congestions, we also considered that the vehicles are not forced to come...

with rapid development in information gathering technologies and access to large amounts of data, we always require methods for data analyzing and extracting useful information from large raw dataset and data mining is an important method for solving this problem. clustering analysis as the most commonly used function of data mining, has attracted many researchers in computer science. because o...

this paper presents a fuzzy approach to the prediction of highly nonlinear timeseries.the optimized mamdani-type fuzzy system denoted sqp-flc is applied forthe input-output modeling of measured data. in order to tune fuzzy membershipfunctions, a sequential quadratic programming (sqp) method is employed. theproposed method is evaluated and validated on a highly complex time series, dailygold pri...

blind source separation technique separates mixed signals blindly without any information on the mixing system. in this paper, we have used two evolutionary algorithms, namely, genetic algorithm and particle swarm optimization for blind source separation. in these techniques a novel fitness function that is based on the mutual information and high order statistics is proposed. in order to evalu...