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Pickup and Delivery Problem

Communications, 2009
Vehicle routing problem and traveling salesman problem are classical problems in operational research; this modification of those problems consists of a transport among nodes of the communication network using cyclical routes of vehicles with a given ...
Jan Pelikan, Jan Fabry
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Contour Propagation for Radiotherapy Treatment Planning Using Nonrigid Registration and Parameter Optimization: Case Studies in Liver and Breast Cancer

Applied Sciences, 2022
Radiotherapy treatments are carried out using computerized axial tomography. In radiation therapy planning, the radiation oncologist must do a manual segmentation of volumes of interest to delineate the organs that should be irradiated.
Eliseo Vargas-Bedoya, Juan Carlos Rivera, Maria Eugenia Puerta, Aurelio Angulo, Niklas Wahl, Gonzalo Cabal   +5 more
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Volt/VAR Optimization: A Survey of Classical and Heuristic Optimization Methods

IEEE Access, 2022
Reactive power optimization and voltage control is one of the most critical components of power system operation, impacting both the economy and security of system operation.
H. Mataifa, S. Krishnamurthy, C. Kriger
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Providing Automatic Support for Heuristic Rules of Methods [PDF]

, 1998
In method-based software development, software engineers create artifacts based on the heuristic rules of the adopted method. Most CASE tools, however, do not actively assist software engineers in applying the heuristic rules.
Aksit, Mehmet, Tekinerdogan, Bedir
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Comparison of Decisions Quality of Heuristic Methods with Limited Depth-First Search Techniques in the Graph Shortest Path Problem

Open Engineering, 2017
The article deals with the problem of analysis of effectiveness of the heuristic methods with limited depth-first search techniques of decision obtaining in the test problem of getting the shortest path in graph.
Vatutin Eduard
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Methods of Fuzzy Multi-Criteria Decision Making for Controlling the Operating Modes of the Stabilization Column of the Primary Oil-Refining Unit

Mathematics, 2023
Many technological systems are characterized by fuzzy initial information, necessary for the development of their models, optimization and control of operating modes.
Batyr Orazbayev, Yerbol Ospanov, Valentina Makhatova, Lazzat Salybek, Zhanat Abdugulova, Zhumazhan Kulmagambetova, Salamat Suleimenova, Kulman Orazbayeva   +7 more
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A Framework for the Flexible Integration of a Class of Decision Procedures into Theorem Provers [PDF]

, 1999
The role of decision procedures is often essential in theorem proving. Decision procedures can reduce the search space of heuristic components of a prover and increase its abilities.
G. Nelson, M. Presburger, R. E. Shostak, S. Owre   +3 more
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Classical and Innovative Methods of Teaching Philosophy

RUDN Journal of Philosophy
The choice and development of methods and forms of teaching philosophy is crucial in the context of the transformation of the education system, the dynamics of generational changes in the perception of information.
Liudmila V. Baeva
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A Metaheuristic Search Algorithm Based on Sampling and Clustering

IEEE Access
As optimization problems become more complicated and extensive, parameterization becomes complex, resulting in a difficult task requiring significant amounts of time and resources.
Maria Harita, Alvaro Wong, Remo Suppi, Dolores Rexachs, Emilio Luque   +4 more
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Heuristic Tools for the Estimation of The Extremal Index

Revstat Statistical Journal, 2018
Clustering of exceedances of a critical level is a phenomenon that concerns risk managers in many areas. The extremal index θ measures the propensity of the large observations in a dataset to cluster.
Marta Ferreira
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