@article{Ouaarab_Ahiod_Yang_2017, title={Random Key Cuckoo Search for the Quadratic Assignment Problem}, volume={5}, url={https://journals.scholarpublishing.org/index.php/TMLAI/article/view/3666}, DOI={10.14738/tmlai.54.3666}, abstractNote={<p>This paper  proposes  an adaptation of the Random- Key  Cuckoo  Search (RKCS)  algorithm for  solving the  famous Quadratic  Assignment   Problem   (QAP).  We  used  a  simplified and efficient random-key encoding scheme to convert a continous space (real numbers) into a combinatorial space. We also consid- ered the displacement of a solution in both spaces by using Le´vy flights. The performance of the RKCS for QAP is tested against a set of benchmarks of QAP from the well-known QAPLIB library, and  the  comparison  with  a set of other  methaheuristics is also carried out.</p><p> </p>}, number={4}, journal={Transactions on Engineering and Computing Sciences}, author={Ouaarab, Aziz and Ahiod, Belaid and Yang, Xin-She}, year={2017}, month={Sep.} }