Aim to minimize the combined fixed and transportation costs by deciding which of five plants to keep open or what have to close.

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In today’s fast-paced, ever-evolving world, the complexity of challenges faced in both business and everyday life requires a shift in how we approach problem solving. Traditional linear thinking, ...

Many important practical computations, such as scheduling, combinatorial, and optimization problems, use techniques known as integer programming to find the best combination of many variables. In ...

This work proposes a multiperiod mixed-integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) model to optimize the complex operations of CO 2 buffering in tanks, transport through pipe networks, and storage in ...

ABSTRACT: In this study, we develop a new meta-heuristic-based approach to solve a multi-objective optimization problem, namely the reliability-redundancy allocation problem (RRAP). Further, we ...