James, Tabitha; Rego, Cesar; Glover, Fred - In: European Journal of Operational Research 195 (2009) 3, pp. 810-826
In this study, we introduce a cooperative parallel tabu search algorithm (CPTS) for the quadratic assignment problem (QAP). The QAP is an NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem that is widely acknowledged to be computationally demanding. These characteristics make the QAP an ideal candidate...