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1Introduction

AssemblyLineBalancing,orsimplyLineBalancing(LB),

istheproblemofassigningoperationstoworkstations

alonganassemblyline,insuchawaythattheassignment

beoptimalinsomesense.EversinceHenryFord‘s

introductionofassemblylines,LBhasbeenanoptimization

problemofsignificantindustrialimportance:the

efficiencydifferencebetweenanoptimalandasub-optimal

assignmentcanyieldeconomies(orwaste)reachingmillions

ofdollarsperyear.LBisaclassicOperationsResearch

(OR)optimizationproblem,havingbeentackledbyORover

severaldecades.Manyalgorithmshavebeenproposedforthe

problem.Yetdespitethepracticalimportanceofthe

problem,andtheOReffortsthathavebeenmadetotackle

it,littlemerciallyavailablesoftwareisavailableto

helpindustryinoptimizingtheirlines.Infact,aording

toarecentsurveybyBeckerandScholl(xx),thereappear

tobecurrentlyjusttwomerciallyavailablepackages

featuringbothastateoftheartoptimizationalgorithm

andauser-friendlyinterfacefordatamanagement.

Furthermore,oneofthosepackagesappearstohandleonly

the―clean‖formulationoftheproblem(SimpleAssembly

LineBalancingProblem,orSALBP),whichleavesonlyone

packageavailableforindustriessuchasautomotive.This

situationappearstobeparadoxical,oratleast

unexpected:giventhehugeeconomiesLBcangenerate,one

wouldexpectseveralsoftwarepackagesvyingtograbapart

ofthoseeconomies.

itappearsthatthegapbetweentheavailableorresults

andtheirdisseminationintoday‘sindustry,isprobably

duetoamisalignmentbetweentheacademiclbproblem

addressedbymostoftheorapproaches,andtheactual

problembeingfacedbytheindustry.lbisadifficult

optimizationproblemevenitssimplestformsarenp-hard