TY - JOUR ID - 23331 TI - Solving Quadratic Assignment Problem (QAP) Using Invasive Weed Optimization Algorithm JO - Advances in Industrial Engineering JA - AIE LA - en SN - AU - Omidbakhsh, Maryam AU - Seifbarghy, Mahdi AD - Y1 - 2011 PY - 2011 VL - 45 IS - Special Issue SP - 113 EP - 125 KW - Invasive weed optimization KW - Meta heuristic algorithms KW - Quadratic assignment problem KW - Weed colonization DO - N2 - A new powerful optimization algorithm inspired from colonizing weeds is utilized to solve the well-known quadratic assignment problem (QAP) which is of application in a large number of practical areas such as plant layout, machinery layout and so on. A set of reference numerical problems from QAPLIB is taken in order to evaluate the efficiency of the algorithm compared with the previous ones which had been applied to solve the addressed problem. The results indicate that the algorithm outperforms the competitive ones for a sizable number of the problems as the problems’ dimensions increase. UR - https://aie.ut.ac.ir/article_23331.html L1 - https://aie.ut.ac.ir/article_23331_b88ba4bb2d5ae64992dce9ed834cfcd7.pdf ER -