Layout problems are found in several types of manufacturing systems. Typically, layout
problems are related to the location of facilities (eg, machines, departments) in a plant. They …

Here, an attempt is made to present a state-of-the-art review of papers on facility layout
problems. This paper aims to deal with the current and future trends of research on facility …

Conventional visual bridge inspection methods are time consuming and may put the
inspector in dangerous situations. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been recently …

Facility layout design (FLD) has a very important effect on the performance of a
manufacturing system. The concept of FLD is usually considered as a multiobjective …

Pebble games are a powerful tool in the study of finite model theory, constraint satisfaction
and database theory. Monads and comonads are basic notions of category theory which are …

In this paper, a mixed integer nonlinear programming model (MINLP) is formulated to
allocate the position of a number of unequal-area rectangular facilities within the continuum …

This paper presents ACO_GLS, a hybrid ant colony optimization approach coupled with a
guided local search, applied to a layout problem. ACO_GLS is applied to an industrial case …

The purpose of this book is to provide readers with an introduction to the fields of decision
making, location analysis, and project and machine scheduling. The combination of these …

Low-carbon sustainable development has become the consensus of manufacturing
enterprises to fulfill their social responsibilities. Facility layout is an essential part of …

Facility layout problems focus on the assignment of departments into the facility layout by
considering the minimization of total costs. A well-designed facility result in efficient material …