Applying Ant system for solving unequal area facility layout problems

• Main Authors: Kuan, Yew Wong, Komarudin, Komarudin
• Format: Article
• Published: Elsevier 2010
• Subjects: TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/22871/; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2009.06.016

Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) is a young metaheuristic algorithm which has shown promising results in solving many optimization problems. To date, a formal ACO-based metaheuristic has not been applied for solving Unequal Area Facility Layout Problems (UA-FLPs). This paper proposes an Ant System (AS)...