The Dilek Peninsula (Dilek mountain) is in the northern part of the Büyük Menderes Delta, while marshy fields and lagoons along the Delta coast lie to the south. These two natural units, which seem to conflict with each ...

Fethiye, ancient Telmessos, is the most important city of ancient Lycia; its exact date of establishment cannot be ascertained as yet (Aygen, 1988). However, the double ss in the last syllable of the name suggests that it ...

Cappadocia is located within central Anatolia between the cities of NevŚehir, Kayseri and Niǧde. Three volcanoes on the NevŚehir plateau, Mount Erciyes (3,917 m), Mount Hasan and a smaller mountain named Güllüdaǧ had formed ...

AdIyaman, the cradle of the oldest civilizations in history, is among the most important provinces in Turkey. Especially, on the Nemrut Mountain in Kahta District, the graves, temples and the statues of kings are extremely ...

The most important sea caves of Turkey are found on the Alanya Peninsula. One of these caves formed by sea erosion is Damlatas Cave. The cave is situated on the west coast of the peninsula, 100 m from the coast. The entrance ...

Mt. Nemrut is the southernmost and youngest of the chain of volcanoes in eastern Anatolia. It is a stratovolcano, (a composite volcano that is tall, conical and composed of many layers of hardened lava, tephra, and volcanic ...

In Halfeti, steppe life prevails framed by natural living of rocks and water. You can observe animals living in the steppe, rocks and river. The Euphrates flows along the rocks bordering Halfeti. You can see rare animals ...

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The harmony search (HS) algorithm is one of the recent evolutionary computation techniques to solve optimization problems. To make it applicable for lot-streaming flow shop problems, a discrete variant of the HS algorithm ...

This paper presents an ensemble of differential evolution algorithms employing the variable parameter search and two distinct mutation strategies in the ensemble to solve real-parameter constrained optimization problems. ...