Xiaofeng, Hu; Erfei, Wu; Jinsong, Bao; Ye, Jin - In: European Journal of Operational Research 206 (2010) 3, pp. 703-707
A new branch-and-bound algorithm is presented to solve the two-sided assembly line balancing problem of type 1 (TALB-1). First, a pair of two directly facing station is defined as a position, and then the two-sided assembly line (TAL) is relaxed to a one-sided assembly line (OAL). Some new lower...