Ant colony optimization for group technology applications

International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology

Volumn 55, Issue 5-8, 2011, Pages 783-795

  Agrawal, Anil Kumar ^a   Bhardwaj, Prabhas ^a   Srivastava, Vivek ^b  

^a BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b Ubona Technologies   (India)

Author keywords

Ant colony optimization; Design of experiments; Evolutionary methods; Group technology

Indexed keywords

ANT-COLONY OPTIMIZATION; EVOLUTIONARY METHOD; GROUPING PROBLEM; MASS PRODUCTION; PARAMETER VALUES; PRODUCTION VOLUMES; TECHNOLOGY APPLICATION;

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; EXPERIMENTS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; NEURAL NETWORKS; SIMULATED ANNEALING; TABU SEARCH;

GROUP TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 79958865920     PISSN: 02683768     EISSN: 14333015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00170-010-3097-1     Document Type: Article

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