[HTML][HTML] Assembly line balancing: What happened in the last fifteen years?

N Boysen, P Schulze, A Scholl - European Journal of Operational Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Ever since the times of Henry Ford up to today's industry 4.0 era, flow-oriented assembly
processes, where an assembly line conveys the workpieces from workstation to workstation …

A taxonomy of line balancing problems and their solutionapproaches

O Battaïa, A Dolgui - International journal of production economics, 2013 - Elsevier
Line balancing belongs to a class of intensively studied combinatorial optimization problems
known to be NP-hard in general. For several decades, the core problem originally …

An improved simulated annealing algorithm with crossover operator for capacitated vehicle routing problem

İ İlhan - Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, 2021 - Elsevier
The capacitated vehicle routing problem (CVRP) is one of the commonly studied issues
today. It belongs to the class of NP-hard problems and has a high time complexity …

An effective method based on simulated annealing for automatic generation control of power systems

A Tabak, İ İlhan - Applied Soft Computing, 2022 - Elsevier
In this study, a novel hybrid Simulated Annealing-Genetic Algorithm (hSA-GA) is proposed.
In the hSA-GA, population-based SA is used and each solution in the population is improved …

Exploration-exploitation tradeoffs in metaheuristics: Survey and analysis

J Xu, J Zhang - Proceedings of the 33rd Chinese control …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Metaheuristics (MHs) have been established as a family of the most practical approaches to
hard optimization problems. Metaheuristic (MH) algorithm is a high-level problem …

Performance analysis and optimum operation of a thermoelectric generator by Taguchi method

WH Chen, SR Huang, YL Lin - Applied Energy, 2015 - Elsevier
The thermoelectric generator (TEG) is a promising device to convert waste heat into
electricity. This work numerically simulates the performance of a TEG system in which a TEG …

Prediction of daily suspended sediment load (SSL) using new optimization algorithms and soft computing models

H Darabi, S Mohamadi, Z Karimidastenaei, O Kisi… - Soft Computing, 2021 - Springer
Accurate modeling and prediction of suspended sediment load (SSL) in rivers have an
important role in environmental science and design of engineering structures and are vital …

A list-based simulated annealing algorithm with crossover operator for the traveling salesman problem

I Ilhan, G Gökmen - Neural Computing and Applications, 2022 - Springer
The traveling salesman problem (TSP) is one of the most popular combinatorial optimization
problems today. It is a problem that is easy to identify but hard to solve. Therefore, it belongs …

Solving multi-objective model of assembly line balancing considering preventive maintenance scenarios using heuristic and grey wolf optimizer algorithm

K Meng, Q Tang, Z Zhang, C Yu - Engineering applications of artificial …, 2021 - Elsevier
The current assembly line balancing studies ignore the preventive maintenance (PM) of
machines in some workstations, implying that the already-known PM information has been …

Workload smoothing in simple assembly line balancing

M Azizoğlu, S Imat - Computers & Operations Research, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper considers a simple assembly line balancing problem with fixed number of
workstations and prespecified cycle time. Our objective is to minimize the sum of the …