The single-finger keyboard layout problem

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 3002-3012

  Dell'Amico, Mauro ^a   Díaz, José Carlos Díaz ^a   Iori, Manuel ^a   Montanari, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Keyboard design; Metaheuristic; Quadratic assignment problem

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL EXPERIMENTS; EMPIRICAL TESTS; KEYBOARD DESIGN; LAYOUT PROBLEMS; META-HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; METAHEURISTIC; NEW SOLUTIONS; NON-TRIVIAL; OPTIMIZATION CRITERION; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; QUADRATIC ASSIGNMENT PROBLEM; SMALL DEVICES; SMART PHONES; SPANISH LANGUAGES; TYPING SPEED; WORD LISTS;

DESIGN; ERGONOMICS; HEURISTIC METHODS; LINGUISTICS; QUERY LANGUAGES; TRAVELING SALESMAN PROBLEM;

COMPUTER KEYBOARDS;

EID: 64549105661     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cor.2009.01.018     Document Type: Article

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