@inproceedings{93b08e6c02714c0f978f345aa624e095,
title = "An Imperialist Competitive Algorithm to Solve the Manufacturing Cell Design Problem",
abstract = "The manufacturing cell design problem is part of the cellular manufacturing system and it has been widely studied as an optimization problem. It consists of grouping machines in parts into manufacturing cells in order to minimize the inter-cell movements. In recent years, different approximate methods have been used to solve this problem. In this paper, we propose a new approximate method inspired on the phenomenon of the colonial age, called imperialist competitive algorithm. In the colonial age, the most powerful countries competed to conquer colonies for increasing their power, where the country with highest power was considered the imperialist one. We performed several experiments on a set of 90 instances, where the proposed approach is able to produce optimal values for the whole set of tested instances.",
keywords = "Imperialist competitive algorithm, Manufacturing cell design problem, Metaheuristics",
author = "Ricardo Soto and Broderick Crawford and Rodrigo Olivares and H{\'e}ctor Ortega and Boris Almonacid",
note = "Funding Information: Broderick Crawford is supported by Grant CONICYT/FONDECYT/REGULAR/ 1171243. Ricardo Soto is supported by Grant CONICYT/FONDECYT/REGULAR/ 1160455. Rodrigo Olivares is supported by CONICYT/FONDEF/IDeA/ID16I10449 and Postgraduate Grant Pontificia Universidad Cat{\'o}lica de Valpar{\'a}ıso (INF-PUCV 2015-2017). Finally, Boris Almonacid are supported by Postgraduate Grant Pontificia Universidad Cat{\'o}lica de Valpar{\'a}ıso, Chile (INF-PUCV 2015). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018, Springer International Publishing AG.; null ; Conference date: 12-09-2017 Through 14-09-2017",
year = "2018",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-67621-0_9",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783319676203",
series = "Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
pages = "102--113",
editor = "Radek Silhavy and Petr Silhavy and Zdenka Prokopova",
booktitle = "Applied Computational Intelligence and Mathematical Methods - Computational Methods in Systems and Software 2017",
}