Application of ant colony optimisation algorithms in solving facility layout problems formulated as quadratic assignment problems: A review

International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 644-672

  See, Phen Chiak ^a   Wong, Kuan Yew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

ACO; Ant colony optimisation; Facility layout optimisation; Metaheuristics; QAPs; Quadratic assignment problems

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; HEURISTIC METHODS; PLANT LAYOUT;

ACO ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATE METHODS; FACILITY LAYOUT PROBLEMS; ITS APPLICATIONS; META HEURISTICS; OPTIMISATIONS; QAPS; QUADRATIC ASSIGNMENT PROBLEMS;

ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 67349281123     PISSN: 17485037     EISSN: 17485045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJISE.2008.020679     Document Type: Review

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