A revised electromagnetism-like mechanism for layout design of reconfigurable manufacturing system

Computers and Industrial Engineering

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 98-108

  Guan, Xianping ^a   Dai, Xianzhong ^b   Qiu, Baijing ^a   Li, Jun ^b  

^a JIANGSU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Automated guided vehicle; Electromagnetism like mechanism; Layout design; Variable neighbourhood search

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED GUIDED VEHICLES; COMPUTATION TIME; FORMAL MODEL; LARGE-SCALE PROBLEM; LAYOUT DESIGNS; LOCAL SEARCH; MATERIAL HANDLING COSTS; NEAR-OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; RECONFIGURABLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEM; SMALL SCALE; VARIABLE NEIGHBOURHOOD SEARCH;

COMPUTER AIDED MANUFACTURING; ELECTROMAGNETISM; HAMMING DISTANCE; MANUFACTURE; MOBILE ROBOTS; OPTIMAL SYSTEMS;

DESIGN;

EID: 84862829829     PISSN: 03608352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cie.2012.01.016     Document Type: Article

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