Clustering search approach for the assembly line worker assignment and balancing problem

37th International Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering 2007

Volumn 2, Issue , 2007, Pages 1151-1160

  Chaves, Antonio Augusto ^a   Insa, Cristobal Miralles ^b   Lorena, Luiz Antonio Nogueira ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Assembly lines; Clustering search; ; Disabled workers

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY LINE; ASSEMBLY-LINE WORKERS; BALANCING PROBLEMS; CLUSTERING SEARCH; DISABLED WORKERS; EVOLUTIONARY CLUSTERING; LOCAL SEARCH METHOD; NEAR-OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS;

ASSEMBLY; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING;

ASSEMBLY MACHINES;

EID: 84886034407     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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