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35th International Computers & Industrial Engineering Conference, İstanbul, Turkey, 1 - 04 June 2005, pp.1135-1140, (Full Text)
This paper presents a new method in genetic algorithm (GA) with order encoding (OE)
for solving the traditional lot sizing problem with multiple suppliers. There are many types of encoding depending on the structure of the problem in GA, which is a heuristic optimization technique. The most used way of encoding is binary. OE is inspired by binary encoding and developed especially for lot sizing problems. Results from computational experiments on a set of problems show that the proposed technique produces high-quality solutions.