Boudia, M.; Prins, C. - In: European Journal of Operational Research 195 (2009) 3, pp. 703-715
This paper studies an NP-hard multi-period production-distribution problem to minimize the sum of three costs: production setups, inventories and distribution. This problem is solved by a very recent form of metaheuristic called memetic algorithm with population management (MA|PM). Contrary to...