Wu, Tai-Hsi; Chang, Chin-Chih; Yeh, Jinn-Yi - In: International Journal of Production Economics 120 (2009) 2, pp. 669-688
This study proposes a hybrid heuristic algorithm employing both the Boltzmann function from simulated annealing and the mutation operator from the genetic algorithm to explore the unvisited solution region and expedite the solution searching process for the cell formation problem, so that...