Traditional meta-heuristic algorithms are often inspired by natural phenomena or biological behaviors, while relatively few are based on human social behavior. Moreover, existing algorithms inspired ...

MaxCut is a key NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem. Quantum computing offers methods to solve such problems potentially better than classical counterparts, with the Quantum Approximate ...

In many automated manufacturing environments, particularly flowlines and flexible manufacturing systems (FMSs), machines are arranged along a straight material handling track with a material handling ...