Business: Integer Holdings Corporation is a medical device contract development and manufacturing company. Its brands include Greatbatch Medical and Lake Region Medical. The company's Cardio & ...

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, ...

Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) is essential for modeling complex decision-making problems but faces challenges in computational tractability and requires expert formulation. Current deep ...

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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 ...

Abstract: In order to solve nonlinear integer programming which is widely used in engineering fields, a particle swarm optimization based on genetic operators is put forward. The integer restriction ...