Title
Hybrid Metaheuristic for the Assembly Line Worker Assignment and Balancing Problem
Abstract
The Assembly Line Worker Assignment and Balancing Problem (ALWABP) appears in real assembly lines which we have to assign given tasks to workers where there are some task-worker incompatibilities and considering that the operation time for each task is different depending upon who executes the task. This problem is typical for Sheltered Work Centers for the Disabled and it is well known to be NP-Hard. In this paper, the hybrid method Clustering Search (CS) is implemented to solve the ALWABP. The CS identifies promising regions of the search space by generating solutions with a metaheuristic, such as Iterated Local Search, and clustering them into clusters that are then explored further with local search heuristics. Computational results considering instances available in the literature are presented to demonstrate the efficacy of the CS.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1007/978-3-642-04918-7_1
Hybrid Metaheuristics
Keywords
Field
DocType
computational result,hybrid method,sheltered work,iterated local search,local search heuristics,assembly line worker assignment,hybrid metaheuristic,operation time,search space,balancing problem,real assembly line,local search
Mathematical optimization,Guided Local Search,Beam search,Heuristics,Local search (optimization),Cluster analysis,Tabu search,Iterated local search,Mathematics,Metaheuristic
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
5818
0302-9743
19
PageRank 
References 
Authors
1.06
5
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Antonio Augusto Chaves111610.24
Luiz Antonio Nogueira Lorena249836.72
Cristobal Miralles3552.37