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Model predictive thrust control (MPTC) is one of the most effective approaches for linear induction motor (LIM) drive system. It can achieve the optimization of multiple objectives. However, the process of tuning the weighting factors in the objective function is the main drawback of MPTC. It greatly increases the computation burden. In this paper, the tuning process of weighting factors is regarded as a random sampling process. Then, a novel weighting factor optimization method based on the sto...

This article introduces a solution approach for the Stochastic Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem (SCVRP) with uncertain demands, called Robust Simulation-Based (RoSi) approach. RoSi aims at designing route plans that can be more or less robust based on a decision-maker weight, i.e. solutions that resist demand changes with marginal additional (recourse) cost. For that, RoSi combines simulation with heuristics. It transforms a complex SCVRP into a set of deterministic ones, where well-known heu...