Intelligent design of an unconstrained layout for a flexible manufacturing system

Neurocomputing

Volumn 73, Issue 4-6, 2010, Pages 639-647

  Ficko, Mirko ^a   Brezovnik, Simon ^a   Klancnik, Simon ^a   Balic, Joze ^a   Brezocnik, Miran ^a   Pahole, Ivo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Breadth first search; Evolutionary computation; Flexible manufacturing system; Floor layout problem; Particle swarm optimization; Unconstrained layout

Indexed keywords

BREADTH-FIRST SEARCH; EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION; EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATIONS; FLOOR LAYOUT; FLOOR LAYOUT PROBLEM;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS; FLOORS; INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO);

ARTICLE; BUILDING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SYSTEM; ERGONOMICS; FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEM; INDUSTRY AND INDUSTRIAL PHENOMENA; LEARNING ALGORITHM; MAN MACHINE INTERACTION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PLANNING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNCONSTRAINED LAYOUT;

EID: 75749141220     PISSN: 09252312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neucom.2009.06.019     Document Type: Article

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