DYNAMIC FACILITY LAYOUT WITH MULTI-OBJECTIVES

Gary Yu-Hsin Chen () and Ju-Chieh Lo ()
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Gary Yu-Hsin Chen: Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Chung Yuan Christian University, Chungli, Taiwan 32023, R.O.C.
Ju-Chieh Lo: Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Chung Yuan Christian University, Chungli, Taiwan 32023, R.O.C.

Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research (APJOR), 2014, vol. 31, issue 04, 1-26

Abstract: A problem in multi-objective dynamic facility layout is achieving distance- and adjacency-based objectives for arranging facility layouts across multiple time periods. As a non-deterministic polynomial time-hard problem, it resembles the quadratic assignment problem (QAP), which can be solved through meta-heuristics such as ant colony optimization (ACO). This study investigates three multi-objective approaches coupled with ACO to solve this problem. As the experimental design, we apply the proposed methods to solve the dynamic facility layout problem (DFLP), multi-objective facility layout problem, and multi-objective DFLP based on data sets from the literature to test the quality of the solution. The results show that the proposed methods are effective for solving the problem.

Keywords: Dynamic multi-objective facility layout problem; ant colony optimization; Pareto efficiency (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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