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 …

In the last decade, aerial delivery system has been considered as a promising response to
increasing traffic jams and incremental demand for transportation. In this study, a distance …

Autonomous vehicles will have a major impact on parking facility designs in the future.
Compared to regular car-parks that have only two rows of vehicles in each island, future car …

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 …

The facility layout problem (FLP) is the problem of placing facilities in a certain shop floor so
that facilities do not overlap each other and are satisfied with some given objectives …

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

Abstract We address the Unequal-Area Facility-Layout Problem (UA-FLP), which aims to
dimension and locate rectangular facilities in an unlimited floor space, without overlap, while …

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 …

This paper presents a differential evolution (DE) algorithm, namely SLADE, with self-
adaptive strategy and control parameters for unconstrained optimization problems. In …