Article ID: | iaor20115420 |
Volume: | 213 |
Issue: | 2 |
Start Page Number: | 388 |
End Page Number: | 394 |
Publication Date: | Sep 2011 |
Journal: | European Journal of Operational Research |
Authors: | Figueira Jos Rui, Datta Dilip, Amaral Andr R S |
Keywords: | heuristics: genetic algorithms |
In this paper, a permutation‐based genetic algorithm (GA) is applied to the NP‐hard problem of arranging a number of facilities on a line with minimum cost, known as the