“…Numerous metaheuristic methods for solving NP problems have been developed in the literature (Sadigh, Mokhtari, Iranpoor & Ghomi, 2012). Using the Genetic Algorithm (GA), which is the most used method, a near-optimal solution is given (Senvar, Turanoglu & Kahraman, 2013;Nestic, Stefanovic, Djordjevic, Arsovski & Tadic, 2015;Rezoug, Bader-El-Den & Boughaci, 2018;Tadić, Djordjević, Aleksić & Nestić, 2019;Lu, Pei, Liu, Qian, Mladenovic & Pardalos, 2020;Gojković, Djurić, Tadić, Nestić & Aleksić, 2021), as is done in this paper. The fact that the application of heuristic methods provides optimal solutions should be highlighted.…”