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 …

The unequal area facility layout problem (UA-FLP) which deals with the layout of
departments in a facility comprises of a class of extremely difficult and widely applicable …

Abstract The Unequal Area Facility Layout Problem (UA–FLP) has been addressed by
various methods, including mathematical modelling, heuristic and metaheuristic …

Dynamic facility layout planning (DFLP) involves determining an appropriate arrangement
scheme of the elements making up the production system for each time period into which the …

In order to develop and establish a functional, integrated system for automated layout design
that can be applied in practice, certain fields of action still need to be identified and solved …

This paper addresses a home health care routing and scheduling problem (HHCRSP)
specifically focusing on the context of a pandemic environment. The investigated HHCRSP …

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 paper proposes an innovation method of integrating a multi-agent reinforcement
learning and 3D A* search,< MARL, A*>, to tackle the facility layout problem with the goal of …

This work proposes a new methodology and mathematical formulation to address the facility
layout problem. The goal is to minimise the total material handling cost subjected to …