Experimental examination of facilities layout problems in logistics systems including objects with diverse sizes and shapes

Jerzy Grobelny and Rafał Michalski ()

No WORMS/16/12, WORking papers in Management Science (WORMS) from Department of Operations Research and Business Intelligence, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology

Abstract: This study demonstrates a simulation experiment results regarding a flexible approach to solving facilities layout problem on a regular grid. In this paper approach we model objects with different dimensions and various shapes. We have implemented our version of the simulated annealing algorithm (Kirkpatrick et al., 1983) and analyzed how the number of cycles (100, 200, 300), objects types (uniform, diverse) affect average goal function values, mean concentration degrees, and the number of disintegrated objects. The formal statistical analysis was conducted separately for two sizes of regular grids, i.e. 6x6 and 10x10. The outcomes generally showed a significant influence of the studied effects on the analyzed dependent variables.

Keywords: Logistics; Facilities layout problem; Simulated annealing; Flexible approach; Simulation experiment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C00 D24 L16 L23 L91 M11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 10 pages
Date: 2016-12-15
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Published in Grobelny J., Michalski R. (2016). Experimental examination of facilities layout problems in logistics systems including objects with diverse sizes and shapes. [In:] L. Borzemski, A. Grzech, J. Świątek, Z. Wilimowska (Ed.), Proceedings of 36th ISAT 2015 – Part I, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing 429, Springer, pp. 159-169. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28555-9_14

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-28555-9_14

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