“…Wang, Li, & Gao, 2019), tabu search (Kalayci & Gupta, 2014), ant colony optimization (Agrawal & Tiwari, 2008;L. P. Ding, Feng, Tan, & Gao, 2010;Kalayci & Gupta, 2013b;Seamus M. McGovern & Gupta, 2006), artificial bee colony algorithm (Kalayci & Gupta, 2013c;Kalayci, Hancilar, Gungor, & Gupta, 2015;Liu et al, 2018; Alphanumeric Journal Volume 9, Issue 1, 2021 Wang, Guo, & Liu, 2019;Wang, Li, Gao, Li, & Sutherland, 2021), particle swarm optimization (Kalayci & Gupta, 2013a;Xiao, Wang, Yu, & Nie, 2017), firefly algorithm (Zhu, et al, 2018)and artificial fish swarm algorithm (Zhang, Wang, Zhu, & Wang, 2017) are the most commonly used metaheuristic techniques.…”