Exact and heuristic procedures for the material handling circular flow path design problem

DOI10.1016/J.EJOR.2005.08.023MaRDI QIDQ852933zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ardavan Asef-Vaziri, G. Laporte, Robert Ortiz

Publication date 15 November 2006

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2005.08.023

zbMATH Keywords

generalized traveling salesman problemmaterial handlingautomated guided vehicle systemsfacility planning

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Approximation methods and heuristics in mathematical programming (90C59) Combinatorial optimization (90C27)

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