Optimizing Computer Networks Communication with the Band Collocation Problem: A Variable Neighborhood Search Approach
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
The paper presents three Variable Neighborhood Search variants that could be used for the Band Collocation Problem.
The results are very well presented and motivated.
Author Response
Authors’ response to the reviewers report (first round) on
“Optimizing computer networks communication with the Band Collocation Problem: A Variable Neighborhood Search approach”
We would like to thank the referees for their valuable comments on the reviewed manuscript and the editor for giving us the opportunity to revise our paper. We do believe that the new issues addressed by the reviewers have significantly helped us to improve our proposal. We reply to the comments of the referees below, indicating the changes made in the manuscript. The original comments from the referees are stated using bold fonts. All the changes performed in the manuscript have been highlighted with red font.
Reviewer: 1
The paper presents three Variable Neighborhood Search variants that could be used for the Band Collocation Problem.
The results are very well presented and motivated.
We would like to thank their reviewer for his/her positive feedback.
Reviewer 2 Report
This manuscript should be revised with reference to the following points:
1.In section 1, some recent relevant literature should be added.
2.In section 3, the authors' main contribution should be highlighted.
3.In section 4, the background of the experiment should be described in detail.
Author Response
Authors’ response to the reviewers report (first round) on
“Optimizing computer networks communication with the Band Collocation Problem: A Variable Neighborhood Search approach”
We would like to thank the referees for their valuable comments on the reviewed manuscript and the editor for giving us the opportunity to revise our paper. We do believe that the new issues addressed by the reviewers have significantly helped us to improve our proposal. We reply to the comments of the referees below, indicating the changes made in the manuscript. The original comments from the referees are stated using bold fonts. All the changes performed in the manuscript have been highlighted with red font.
Reviewer: 2
This manuscript should be revised with reference to the following points:
In section 1, some recent relevant literature should be added.
Done. Since the BCP is very recent, there literature about it is not wide. However, we have included additional references about proposals for solving both Bandpass and Band Collocation Problem from different perspectives which can be interesting for the readers.
In section 3, the authors' main contribution should be highlighted.
Done. We have included the contributions in Section 1, since the evaluation described in Section 2 is also one of the main contributions of this work.
In section 4, the background of the experiment should be described in detail.
Done. We have included a new paragraph specifying the performed experiments.
