An Imperialist Competitive Algorithm for Solving the Production Scheduling Problem in Open Pit Mine

Production scheduling (planning) of an open-pit mine is the procedure during which the rock blocks are assigned to different production periods in a way that the highest net present value of the project achieved subject to operational constraints. The paper introduces a new and computationally less...

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Published inInternational Journal of Mining and Geo-Engineering Vol. 50; no. 1; pp. 131 - 143
Main Authors Mojtaba Mokhtarian Asl, Javad Sattarvand
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published University of Tehran 01.06.2016
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Imperialist Competitive Algorithm
Integer linear programming
meta-heuristic methods
Open pit mine production scheduling
Integer linear programming
Open pit mine production scheduling
meta-heuristic methods
Imperialist Competitive Algorithm
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Summary:Production scheduling (planning) of an open-pit mine is the procedure during which the rock blocks are assigned to different production periods in a way that the highest net present value of the project achieved subject to operational constraints. The paper introduces a new and computationally less expensive meta-heuristic technique known as imperialist competitive algorithm (ICA) for long-term production planning of open pit mines. The proposed algorithm modifies the original rules of the assimilation process. The ICA performance for different levels of the control factors has been studied and the results are presented. The result showed that ICA could be efficiently applied on mine production planning problem.
ISSN:2345-6930
2345-6949