Applying ant system for solving unequal area facility layout problems

DOI10.1016/j.ejor.2009.06.016zbMath1176.90358MaRDI QIDQ1040995

Komarudin, Kuan Yew Wong

Publication date: 27 November 2009

Published in: European Journal of Operational Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2009.06.016

zbMATH Keywords

metaheuristic; facility layout; ant system; unequal area facility layout problem; slicing tree representation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

90C59: Approximation methods and heuristics in mathematical programming

90B80: Discrete location and assignment

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