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

DOI10.1016/j.ejor.2010.03.024zbMath1205.90171MaRDI QIDQ992586

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

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 optimization; facility layout; facility logistics; material handling; automated guided vehicle systems; vehicle based material transport systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

90B06: Transportation, logistics and supply chain management

90C59: Approximation methods and heuristics in mathematical programming

90B80: Discrete location and assignment

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