Skeleton-based facility layout design using genetic algorithms

Hugues Delmaire, André Langevin and Diane Riopel

Annals of Operations Research, 1997, vol. 69, issue 0, 85-104

Abstract: In this paper, a new approach for the facility layout problem is presented. This approach combines genetic algorithms with linear programming to design the facilities on fixed aisle skeletons (spine shape, T shape, etc.). For a given shape, a string in the genetic process gives the ordering of the departments. This ordering is used as input for a linear program that computes the fitness of that string as a potential solution to the problem. The genetic search then loops with its operators (selection, cross-over, mutation) correctly adapted. Some tests on problems taken in the literature are reported. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 1997

Date: 1997
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