Aircraft Cabin Cleaning Optimization

Aircraft turnaround optimization has recently gained attention from researchers, with the goal of freeing up capacity in congested airports. Most modern research focuses on the passenger boarding process. However, cabin cleaning also resides in the process critical path and an improvement of the cleaning lead time will therefore impact the...

Ant Colony Optimization for DSM's Flexible Job Shop Problem

This papers examines an ant colony optimization approach for solving a specific variant of the Flexible Job Shop Problem faced by the Dutch chemistry company DSM. Jobs consisting of operations on a specific enzyme need to be scheduled as efficiently as possible on groups of available machines. The most interesting requirement upon the general...

Integrating swarm intelligence with bayesian networks for continuous UAV-based surveillance in dynamic environments

The loss of wildlife due to illegal poaching activity poses threats on both the survival of iconic animal species and the livelihood of local communities. This research proposes a distributed surveillance model in which a UAV swarm autonomously coordinates continuous surveillance in a dynamic environment. The adaptive behaviour of poachers has...

Optimizing a Solar Sailing Polar Mission to the Sun: Development and Application of a New Ant Colony Optimizer

In the context of metaheuristic global optimization, we present the definition and development of two new ant colony optimizers (ACO): a single-objective mixed-integer one, called ACOmi, and a multi-objective hypervolume-based one, called MHACO. In particular, after having performed a verification and validation phase over a wide set of problems...