“…More recently, with the emergence of new techniques from the field of artificial intelligence, much attention has been devoted to meta-heuristics. The tabu search (TS) has been widely used, such as Brandimart 11 , Mastrolilli and Gambardella 12 , Bozejko et al 13 and Li et al 14 , while the genetic algorithm (GA) has also been examined to be an efficient method such as in Chen et al 15 , Kacem et al 16 , Pezzella et al 17 and Gao et al 18 Besides, some other meta-heuristics have been employed for this problem such as simulated annealing (SA) [19][20][21] , particle swarm optimization (PSO) [22][23][24] , ant colony optimization (ACO) 25 , artificial neural network (ANN) 26 , and artificial immune system (AIS) 27 .…”