Research Article

Integrated Design of Cellular Production System Using Branch and Bound Algorithm

Table 4

Comparing the obtained results from branch and bound algorithm.

The number of problemNumber of machinesNumber of cellsMaximum number of machinesResponseARE
Genetic response time (seconds)Branch and bound response time (second)

16332031940.04
28332302500.08
310344364500.03
412354344420.01
51445105311000.04
61645189921000.09
71855404941000.01
82056656066000.006