Operations Research Perspectives 

TL;DR: The rationale underlying the iterated racing procedures in irace is described and a number of recent extensions are introduced, including a restart mechanism to avoid premature convergence, the use of truncated sampling distributions to handle correctly parameter bounds, and an elitist racing procedure for ensuring that the best configurations returned are also those evaluated in the highest number of training instances.

TL;DR: A general methodology that allows for extending metaheuristics through simulation to solve stochastic COPs and helps modelers for dealing with real-life uncertainty in a natural way by integrating simulation (in any of its variants) into a metaheuristic-driven framework is described.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify critical success factors for lean implementation in SMEs and provide new insights into the role of knowledge as a causal factor in the successful implementation of lean and especially in organizations with limited resources.

TL;DR: In this paper, a unique fuzzy multi-criteria decision-making approach is proposed for improving the food losses through cold-third party logistics providers (CTPLs) evaluation and selection process.

TL;DR: There is no reason for harmony search to exist as a separate metaheuristic framework, as the performance of the best harmony search algorithm is always bounded by the performance that can be obtained by evolution strategies.