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International Journal of Production Research Volume 44, 2006 - Issue 23
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Solving the facility and layout and location problem by ant-colony optimization-meta heuristic

Hamid Davoud Pour Faculty of Industrial Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Hafez Ave, Tehran, IranCorrespondence[email protected]
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Mostafa Nosraty Faculty of Industrial Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Hafez Ave, Tehran, Iran
Pages 5187-5196 | Received 01 Dec 2005, Published online: 22 Feb 2007

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