Facility layout planning (FLP) involves a set of design problems related to the arrangement
of the elements that shape industrial production systems in a physical space. The fact that …

Facility layout problem (FLP) is defined as the placement of facilities in a plant area, with the
aim of determining the most effective arrangement in accordance with some criteria or …

Facility layout problems are an important class of operations research problems that has
been studied for several decades. Most variants of facility layout are NP-hard, therefore …

This paper presents a biased random-key genetic algorithm (BRKGA) for the unequal area
facility layout problem (UA-FLP) where a set of rectangular facilities with given area …

The physical layout of a retail store is known to influence the attitude and behavior of
shoppers and affect store performance. An important role of the store's layout is to expose …

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 …

The designer of a plant layout is faced with the efficient arrangement of facilities, the
planning of material handling locations, and the aisle design. These mutually dependent …

An unequal area facility layout problem (UA-FLP) is a typical optimization problem that
occurs when constructing an efficient layout within given areas. In this research, a harmony …

The conventional facility layout problem (FLP) is concerned with arranging a number of
interacting facilities, such as machines or departments, within a single-floor or multi-floor …

Thus far in the available literature, capability-based facility layout design approaches were
developed by only considering equal machine areas, where they are assigned to the pre …