A tabu search approach for mixed-model parallel assembly line balancing problem (type II)

• Main Authors: Esmaeilian, Gholam Reza, Sulaiman, Shamsuddin, Ismail, Napsiah, Hamedi, Maryam, Megat Ahmad, Megat Mohammad Hamdan
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Inderscience Publishers 2011
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/23032/1/A%20tabu%20search%20approach%20for%20mixed-model%20parallel%20assembly%20line%20balancing%20problem%20%28type%20II%29.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/23032/
• Institution: Universiti Putra Malaysia

There are two types of assembly line balancing problems (ALBPs), which have received a great attention in the literature during the past four decades: types I and II. Both versions of ALBP are NP-hard and cannot be solved by exact methods. This paper presents an efficient tabu search (TS) metaheuris...