GA and ICA approaches to job rotation scheduling problem: Considering employee's boredom

International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology

Volumn 60, Issue 5-8, 2012, Pages 651-666

  Ayough, Ashkan ^a   Zandieh, M ^a   Farsijani, H ^a  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Functional and dysfunctional boredom; Job rotation scheduling; Nonlinear integer programming

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMIC COMPLEXITY; COMPETITIVE ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATION TIME; FUNCTIONAL AND DYSFUNCTIONAL BOREDOM; INDUSTRIAL SETTINGS; JOB ROTATION; MULTI-PERIOD; NEW MODEL; NON-LINEAR INTEGER PROGRAMMING; PLANNING HORIZONS; SEARCH ALGORITHMS; TAGUCHI'S METHODS; TEST PROBLEM; TOTAL COSTS;

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; SCHEDULING;

GENETIC ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84861670629     PISSN: 02683768     EISSN: 14333015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00170-011-3641-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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