Title :
Evolutionary program for optimal design of material distribution system
Author :
Gong, Dijin ; Yamazaki, Genji ; Gen, Mitsuo
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Eng. Manage., Tokyo Metropolitan Inst. of Technol., Japan
Abstract :
In this paper we discuss the optimal design problem of material distribution system which consists of customers and a number of inventory centers to be located. We formulate this problem as a mixed integer programming model and propose an evolutionary program method which absorbs ideas of Genetic Algorithm (GA) and Evolutionary Strategy (ES) as well as traditional techniques to solve it. Compared with the alternative location-allocation heuristic method, this evolutionary program method is more promising in finding better solution which can be regarded as near global solution. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the evolutionary program method by numerical experiments
Keywords :
genetic algorithms; goods distribution; integer programming; operations research; optimisation; stock control; customers; evolutionary program method; evolutionary strategy; genetic algorithm; inventory centers; material distribution system; mixed integer programming model; near global solution; numerical experiments; optimal design problem; Genetic algorithms; Genetic mutations; Large-scale systems; Linear programming; Materials handling; Mathematical model; Optimization methods; Robustness; Systems engineering and theory; Technology management;
Conference_Titel :
Evolutionary Computation, 1996., Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Nagoya
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-2902-3
DOI :
10.1109/ICEC.1996.542349
