A novel ant colony algorithm for assembly sequence planning

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 · 11.9K citations

Computing, Computer Science, Algorithms +16

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

Marco Dorigo, Luca Maria Gambardella · IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation · 1997 · 8K citations

Computing, Computer Science, Algorithms +16

Optimization, Learning and Natural Algorithms

Marco Dorigo · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 1992 · 3.2K citations

Computing, Computer Science, Mathematics +12

Product design for manufacture and assembly

G. Boothroyd · Computer-Aided Design · 1994 · 1.7K citations

Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering +12

Simplified generation of all mechanical assembly sequences

T. De Fazio, Daniel E. Whitney · IEEE Journal on Robotics and Automation · 1987 · 796 citations

Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering +9