Evolutionary artificial intelligence algorithms for the one-way road orientation planning problem with multiple venues: An example of evacuation planning in Taiwan.

Introduction: In large-scale events such as concerts and sports competitions, participants often leave the venue at the same time to return to their respective destinations. Improper traffic planning and traffic light operation usually lead to traffic congestion and road chaos near the sites. Rapid evacuation of participants has become an important issue.

A heuristic algorithm for medical staff's scheduling problems with multiskills and vacation control.

Introduction: The main issue related to the duty schedule is to allocate medical staff to each medical department by considering personnel skills and personal vocation preferences. However, how to effectively use staff's multiskill characteristics and how to execute vocation control have not been well investigated.

Objectives: This article aims to develop duty scheduling and vacation permission decisions to minimize the sum of customers' waiting costs, the overtime cost of medical staff, the cost of failing to meet medical staff' vacation requirements, and the cost of mutual support between departments.

Optimal design on Watt-chain double-toggle mold clamping mechanism for injection molding machine.

Introduction: The mode clamping mechanism is the most important part of forming section for the plastic injection molding machine. If this mechanism has double-toggle effects at the close position, it will get a larger clamping force and have higher safety. This study focuses on the optimal design of the Watt-chain mechanism with double-toggle effects at the close position.

Scheduling the periodic delivery of liquefied petroleum gas tank with time window by using artificial intelligence approaches: An example in Taiwan.

Introduction: In Taiwan, liquefied petroleum gas tank users have to call a gas company to deliver a full liquefied petroleum gas tank when their tank is out of gas. The calls usually congest in the cooking time and the customers have to wait for a long time for a full liquefied petroleum gas tank. Additionally, allocating manpower is difficult for the gas company.