ABSALOM: Balancing assemblylines with assignment restrictions

Assembly line balancing problems (ALBPs) arise whenever an assembly line is configured, redesignedor adjusted. An ALBP consists of distributing the total workload for manufacturingproducts among the work stations along the line. On the one hand, research has focussed on developingeffective and fast solution methods for exactly solving the simple assembly line balancingproblem (SALBP). On the other hand, a number of real-world extensions of SALBPhave been introduced but solved with straightforward and simple heuristics in many cases.Therefore, there is a lack of procedures for exactly solving such generalized ALBP...