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 …

Recent trends in industry suggest that existing layout configurations do not meet the needs
of multiproduct enterprises and that there is a need for a new generation of factory layouts …

The quadratic assignment problem (QAP), one of the most difficult problems in the NP-hard
class, models many real-life problems in several areas such as facilities location, parallel …

GRASP is a multi-start metaheuristic for combinatorial optimization problems, in which each
iteration consists basically of two phases: construction and local search. The construction …

It has been over a decade since Rosenblatt published his seminal paper on modelling the
dynamic facility layout problem (DFLP). Since then, there have been improvements to …

Facility layout problem is associated with the arrangement of facilities in a plant. It is a critical
issue in the early stages of designing a manufacturing system because it affects the total …

This paper presents an algorithm combining dynamic programming and genetic search for
solving a dynamic facility layout problem. While the quadratic assignment formulation of this …

A greedy randomized adaptive search procedure (GRASP) is a multi-start metaheuristic for
combinatorial optimization problems, in which each iteration consists basically of two …

GRASP is a multi-start metaheuristic for combinatorial optimization problems, in which each
iteration consists basically of two phases: construction and local search. The construction …

Hospital facilities are known as functionally complex buildings. There are usually
configurational problems that lead to inefficient transportation processes for patients …