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  <dc:title>Heuristics for the Quadratic Assignment Problem (QAP)</dc:title>
  <dc:title>R package qap version 0.1-3</dc:title>
  <dc:subject>CRAN Task View: Optimization (https://CRAN.R-project.org/view=Optimization)</dc:subject>
  <dc:description>Implements a simulated annealing heuristic for the Quadratic Assignment Problem (QAP). Originally formulated as a facility location problem in operations research, the QAP also has applications in data analysis. The problem is NP-hard.</dc:description>
  <dc:type>Software</dc:type>
  <dc:relation>Suggests: testthat</dc:relation>
  <dc:creator>Michael Hahsler &lt;mhahsler@lyle.smu.edu&gt;</dc:creator>
  <dc:publisher>Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)</dc:publisher>
  <dc:contributor>Michael Hahsler [aut, cre, cph] (ORCID:
    &lt;https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2716-1405&gt;),
  Franz Rendl [ctb, cph]</dc:contributor>
  <dc:rights>GPL-3</dc:rights>
  <dc:date>2026-10-01</dc:date>
  <dc:format>application/tgz</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=qap</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.qap</dc:identifier>
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