“…Our work is motivated by appealing features of a MAS which could be advantageously used to elaborate intelligent computing systems (Martin, Ouelhadj, Smetb, Beullens, &Özcan, 2013;Guo, Goncalves, & Hsu, 2013;Gonçalves, Guimarães, & Souza, 2014;Satunin & Babkin, 2014;Couellan, Jan, Jorquera, & Georgé, 2015;Baykasoglu & Kaplanoglu, 2015;Zheng & Wang, 2015). Compared with the existing studies on the QAP, this work has the following main contributions:…”