2-ANTBAL: An ant colony optimisation algorithm for balancing two-sided assembly lines

Ant system: optimization by a colony of cooperating agents

Marco Dorigo, Vittorio Maniezzo, A. Colorni · IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Part B (Cybernetics) · 1996 · 11.8K citations

Mathematical Programming, Positive Feedback, Engineering +18

Ant colony system: a cooperative learning approach to the traveling salesman problem

Marco Dorigo, Luca Maria Gambardella · IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation · 1997 · 7.9K citations

Artificial Intelligence, Cooperative Learning Approach, Engineering +19

Ant colonies for the travelling salesman problem

Marco Dorigo, Luca Maria Gambardella · Biosystems · 1997 · 2K citations

Engineering, Traveling Salesman Problem, Ant Colonies +7

A survey on problems and methods in generalized assembly line balancing

Christian Becker, Armin Schöll · European Journal of Operational Research · 2004 · 1K citations

Assembly, Load Balancing (Computing), Engineering +6

State-of-the-art exact and heuristic solution procedures for simple assembly line balancing

Armin Schöll, Christian Becker · European Journal of Operational Research · 2004 · 837 citations

Assembly, Load Balancing (Computing), Simple Assembly Line +10