A spring-embedding approach for the facility layout problem

Ignacio Castillo () and Thaddeus Sim
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Ignacio Castillo: University of Alberta School of Business Edmonton
Thaddeus Sim: University of Alberta School of Business Edmonton

Journal of the Operational Research Society, 2004, vol. 55, issue 1, 73-81

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: facility layout; non-linear programming; optimisation; augmented Lagrangian multiplier method (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.jors.2601647

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