An improved hybrid artificial bee colony algorithm for a multi-supplier closed-loop location inventory problem with customer returns

• Hao Guo,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations School of Management, Wuhan Textile University, Wuhan, Hubei, China, Research Center of Enterprise Decision Support, Key Research Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences in Universities of Hubei Province, Wuhan, Hubei, China

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• Xiaomei Lai,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation

  Affiliation School of Management, Wuhan Textile University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

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• Ju Guo ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: guojxueshu@163.com

  Affiliations College of International Business and Economics, Wuhan Textile University, Wuhan, Hubei, China, Hubei Key Laboratory of Digital Textile Equipment, Wuhan Textile University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

  https://orcid.org/0009-0003-9129-6280

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• Ge You,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision

  Affiliation School of Literature and Media, Nanfang College Guangzhou, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

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• Ibrahim Alnafrah

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Graduate School of Economics and Management, Ural Federal University, Yekaterinburg, Russia, Institute of Graduate Studies and Research, Cyprus International University, Nicosia, North Cyprus

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7448-8315

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