1. An improved heuristic approach for multi-objective facility layout problem
- Author
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Surya Prakash Singh and V.K. Singh
- Subjects
Mathematical optimization ,Engineering ,Page layout ,Quadratic assignment problem ,business.industry ,Process (engineering) ,Heuristic ,Strategy and Management ,Empirical process (process control model) ,Management Science and Operations Research ,computer.software_genre ,Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering ,Design process ,Engineering design process ,business ,Assignment problem ,computer - Abstract
Multi-objective facility layout problem (mFLP) generates a different layout by varying objectives weights. Since the selection of objective weights in mFLP is critical, stages of designing layout having multiple objectives, the objective weights therefore play an important role in the layout design of mFLP. In practice, it is selected randomly by the layout designer based on his/her past experience that restricts the layout designing process completely designer dependent and thus the layout varies from designer to designer. This paper aims to resolve the issues of selecting the objective weight for each objective. We propose four methods to determine objective weight which makes the design process of mFLP completely designer independent.
- Published
- 2009