Ant colony optimization for solving an industrial layout problem

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• Publication year

  2007

• Venue

  European Journal of Operational Research

• Publication date

  2007-12-01

• Fields of study

  Computer Science, Engineering

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  DOI 10.1016/j.ejor.2006.10.032
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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