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Ignacio Castillo
A spring-embedding approach for the facility layout problem (ABSTRACT)
Castillo, I. and T. Sim
published: 2004 | Research publication | Refereed Journals - ODS
Castillo, I. and T. Sim (2004). "A spring-embedding approach for the facility layout problem", Journal of the Operational Research Society, 55(1):73–81.
ABSTRACT: The facility layout problem is concerned with finding the most efficient arrangement of a given number of departments with unequal area requirements within a facility. The facility layout problem is a hard problem, and therefore, exact solution methods are only feasible for small or greatly restricted problems. In this paper, we propose a spring-embedding approach that unlike previous approaches results in a model that is convex. Numerical results demonstrating the potential of our model and the efficiency of our solution procedure are presented.
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