A hybrid variable neighborhood search and simulated annealing algorithm to estimate the three parameters of the Weibull distribution. - Babak Abbasi; Seyed Taghi Akhavan Niaki; Mehrzad Abdi Khalife; Yasser Faize (Expert Syst. Appl., 2011)

Estimating the four parameters of the Burr III distribution using a hybrid method of variable neighborhood search and iterated local search algorithms. - Nima Zoraghi; Babak Abbasi; Seyed Taghi Akhavan Niaki; Mehrzad Abdi Khalife (Appl. Math. Comput., 2012)