A competitive and cooperative Migrating Birds Optimization algorithm for vary-sized batch splitting scheduling problem of flexible Job-Shop with setup time

M Zhang, Y Tan, J Zhu, Y Chen, Z Chen - Simulation Modelling Practice …, 2020 - Elsevier
Batch production has been widely used in mass-producing manufacturing where batch
splitting techniques can be applied to improve the production efficiency. Therefore the Batch …

Andean Condor Algorithm for cell formation problems

B Almonacid, R Soto - Natural Computing, 2019 - Springer
This paper proposes a novel population based optimization algorithm called Andean
Condor Algorithm (ACA) for solving cell formation problems. The ACA metaheuristic is …

Comparing three simple ways of generating neighboring solutions when solving the cell formation problem using two versions of migrating birds optimization

B Almonacid, R Soto, B Crawford - 2017 17th International …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The cell formation problem is a classic optimization problem devoted to the manufacturing
industry. Such a problem proposes to divide a manufacturing plant in a set of cells, where …