Simulated Annealing and Genetic Algorithms for the Facility Layout Problem: A Survey

Computational Optimization and Applications

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 111-126

  Mavridou, Thelma D ^a   Pardalos, Panos M ^a  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

Combinatorial Optimization; Facility Layout Problem; Genetic Algorithms; Heuristics; Parallel Algorithms; Simulated Annealing

Indexed keywords

GENETIC ALGORITHMS; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SIMULATED ANNEALING;

FACILITY LAYOUT PROBLEM; HEURISTICS;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 0030648152     PISSN: 09266003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008623913524     Document Type: Article

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