Author/Authors :
Mokhtarian Asl، Mojtaba نويسنده Mining Engineering Faculty, Sahand University of Technology, Sahand New Town, Tabriz, Iran , , Sattarvand، Javad نويسنده Assistant Professor, Faculty of Minning Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada, USA ,
Abstract :
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 This 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.
