Title of article
Solving facility layout problems using Flexible Bay Structure representation and Ant System algorithm
Author/Authors
Wong، نويسنده , , Kuan Yew and Komarudin، نويسنده ,
Issue Information
روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2010
Pages
5
From page
5523
To page
5527
Abstract
This paper proposes an Ant System (AS) algorithm for solving Unequal Area Facility Layout Problems (UA-FLPs) using Flexible Bay Structure (FBS) representation. In addition, an improvement to the FBS representation is made when solving problems with empty spaces. The method is extensively tested using numerous problem instances taken from the literature and overall, encouraging results are obtained.
Keywords
facility layout , Flexible Bay representation , Ant system , Unequal Area Facility Layout Problem
Journal title
Expert Systems with Applications
Serial Year
2010
Journal title
Expert Systems with Applications
Record number
2348172
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