Hybrid particle swarm optimization with mutation for optimizing industrial product lines: An application to a mixed solution space considering both discrete and continuous design variables

Industrial Marketing Management

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 496-506

  Tsafarakis, Stelios ^a   Saridakis, Charalampos ^b   Baltas, George ^c   Matsatsinis, Nikolaos ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Business to business marketing; Hybridization; Mutation operator; Particle swarm optimization; Product line design

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878505117     PISSN: 00198501     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.indmarman.2013.03.002     Document Type: Article

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