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 …

ABSTRACT College of Business, CB 419 University of Colorado Boulder, CO 80309 email:
Fred. Glover@ colorado. edu Tabu search (TS) has provided advances for solving difficult …

Faced with the challenge of solving hard optimization problems that abound in the real
world, classical methods often encounter great difficulty. Vitally important applications in …

Recent and emerging trends in the facility layout problem, covering the last 10 years of
research, are presented, including new methodologies, objectives, algorithms, and …

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 …

Modular integrated construction (MiC) is an innovative construction method that is widely
used in practice, but high transportation cost is an obstacle to its wider implementation. This …

Due to inherent complexity of the dynamic facility layout problem, it has always been a
challenging issue to develop a solution algorithm for this problem. For more than one …

The dynamic facility layout problem (DFLP) is the problem of finding positions of
departments on the plant floor for multiple periods (material flows between departments …

With the construction industry shifting towards sustainable practices, it has become critical to
incorporate sustainability measures in the design and operation of buildings. Space layout …

The majority of the issued facilities layout problems (FLPs) minimize the material handling
cost and ignore other factors, such as area utilization, department shape and site shape …