Office-space-allocation problem using harmony search algorithm

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7664 LNCS, Issue PART 2, 2012, Pages 365-374

  Awadallah, Mohammed A ^a   Khader, Ahamad Tajudin ^a   Al Betar, Mohammed Azmi ^a,b   Woon, Phuah Chea ^a  

^a SCHOOL OF PHYSICS   (Malaysia)

^b JADARA UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Harmony search; Office Space Allocation; Population based

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; HARD CONSTRAINTS; HARMONY SEARCH; HARMONY SEARCH ALGORITHMS; LIMITED SPACE; MEMORY CONSIDERATIONS; METAHEURISTIC; NEW RESULTS; OFFICE-SPACE-ALLOCATION; POPULATION-BASED; SOFT CONSTRAINT;

DATA PROCESSING;

LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84869062841     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-34481-7_45     Document Type: Conference Paper

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