An ant colony system for enhanced loop-based aisle-network design

DOI10.1016/J.EJOR.2010.03.024MaRDI QIDQ992586zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ardavan Asef-Vaziri, Morteza Kazemi, Kourosh Eshghi, Maher Lahmar

Publication date 9 September 2010

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2010.03.024

zbMATH Keywords

ant colony optimizationfacility layoutfacility logisticsmaterial handlingautomated guided vehicle systemsvehicle based material transport systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Approximation methods and heuristics in mathematical programming (90C59) Transportation, logistics and supply chain management (90B06) Discrete location and assignment (90B80)

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• Covering and connectivity constraints in loop-based formulation of material flow network design in facility layout

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