“…The best known objective value for the 1-norm version of SWP, 9526, was rst obtained in 1990 using a tabu search algorithm 40], and has been subsequently rediscovered many times. One permutation (assignment of components to locations) attaining this value is: (12,19,30,11,2,3,22,20,10,21,5,4,13,15,31,32,28,29,24,14,17,18,16,9,8,7,6,23,33,34,35,25,27,26,1,36). Note that in this assignment the two dummy components (numbers 35 and 36) are placed in corners of the grid that are diagonally opposite one another.…”