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A spring-embedding approach for the facility layout problem

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A spring-embedding approach for the facility layout problem
The facility layout problem is concerned with finding the most efficient arrangement of a given number of departments with unequal area requirements within a facility. The facility layout problem is a hard problem, and therefore, exact solution methods are only feasible for small or greatly restricted problems. In this paper, we propose a spring-embedding approach that unlike previous approaches results in a model that is convex. Numerical results demonstrating the potential of our model and the efficiency of our solution procedure are presented.
I. Castillo, T. Sim
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Type Journal
Year 2010
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Authors I. Castillo, T. Sim
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