Abstract: The Flexible Job Shop Scheduling Problem (FJSP), a classical NP-hard problem, requires the solution of two aspects of the complex problem, the first is to assign each operation to an ...

Fragments of DNA from long-extinct human relatives still circulate in modern genomes, and in some cases they do more than linger. They actively shape how people survive in extreme environments. The ...

In 2021, just months after the first COVID vaccines debuted, concern was growing about an exceedingly rare but sometimes deadly outcome of certain shots. Two related vaccines—one from AstraZeneca and ...

This paper proposes an Improved Genetic Algorithm combined with Path-Reconstruction operators (IGAPR) to solve the Dynamic Orienteering Problem with Time Windows (DOPTW). In this problem, task nodes ...