Optimal product design using a colony of virtual ants

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 176, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 498-520

  Albritton, M David ^a   McMullen, Patrick R ^b  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ant colony optimization (ACO); Combinatorial optimization; Heuristics; Product design planning; Swarm intelligence (SI)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; HEURISTIC METHODS; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; OPTIMIZATION; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION (ACO); COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION; PRODUCT OFFERING SCENARIOS; SWARM INTELLIGENCE (SI);

PRODUCT DESIGN;

EID: 33748956638     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2005.06.042     Document Type: Article

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