| Article ID: | iaor20031201 |
| Country: | United States |
| Volume: | 6 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Start Page Number: | 143 |
| End Page Number: | 153 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2002 |
| Journal: | Journal of Applied Mathematics & Decision Sciences |
| Authors: | Drezner Zvi |
| Keywords: | heuristics |
We propose a new heuristic for the solution of the quadratic assignment problem. The heuristic combines ideas from tabu search and genetic algorithms. Run times are very short compared with other heuristic procedures. The heuristic performed very well on a set of test problems.