Developing a Permutation Method Using Tabu Search Algorithm: A Case Study of Ranking Some Countries of West Asia and North Africa Based on Important Development Criteria

Subject Areas : Design of Experiment

Javad Rezaeian ¹ , Keyvan Shokoufi ² , Shahab Poursafary ³

1 - Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Mazandaran University of Science and Technology, Babol, Iran
2 - MSc, Department of Industrial Engineering, Mazandaran University of Science and Technology, Babol, Iran
3 - MSc, Department of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Mazandaran University of Science and Technology, Babol, Iran

Received: 2013-06-18 Accepted : 2014-10-02 Published : 2015-12-14

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