A heuristic and a branch-and-bound algorithm for the assembly line worker assignment and balancing problem

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 45, Issue , 2014, Pages 87-96

  Borba, Leonardo ^a   Ritt, Marcus ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Assembly Line Balancing; Beam search; Branch and bound; Heterogeneous workers; MIP

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY LINE BALANCING; BEAM SEARCH; BRANCH AND BOUNDS; HETEROGENEOUS WORKERS; MIP;

ASSEMBLY; ASSEMBLY MACHINES; CONSTRAINT SATISFACTION PROBLEMS; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; HEURISTIC METHODS;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 84892557305     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cor.2013.12.002     Document Type: Article

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