New heuristic for the dynamic layout problem

New heuristic for the dynamic layout problem

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Article ID: iaor20042432
Country: United Kingdom
Volume: 54
Issue: 12
Start Page Number: 1275
End Page Number: 1282
Publication Date: Dec 2003
Journal: Journal of the Operational Research Society
Authors: , ,
Keywords: layout
Abstract:

The dynamic layout problem addresses the situation where the traffic among the various units within a facility changes over time. Its objective is to determine a layout for each period in a planning horizon such that the total of the flow and the relocation costs is minimized. The problem is computationally very hard and has begun to receive attention only recently. In this paper, we present a new heuristic scheme, based on the idea of viable layouts, which is easy to operationalize. A limited computational study shows that, depending upon how it is implemented, this scheme can be reasonably fast and can yield results that are competitive with those from other available solution methods.

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