| Article ID: | iaor1996112 |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Volume: | 33 |
| Issue: | 9 |
| Start Page Number: | 2601 |
| End Page Number: | 2614 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 1995 |
| Journal: | International Journal of Production Research |
| Authors: | Chen C.-L., Cotruvo N.A., Baek W. |
| Keywords: | heuristics, optimization: simulated annealing |
This research develops a simulated annealing (SA) based heuristic for cell formation problems. The authors apply the SA based heuristic to many popular examples for cell formation problems. The computational results show that the SA based heuristic performs very well in all these examples, and the SA based heuristic has several advantages that most of the existing algorithms do not have.