| Article ID: | iaor20072666 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 34 |
| Issue: | 6 |
| Start Page Number: | 660 |
| End Page Number: | 672 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2006 |
| Journal: | Operations Research Letters |
| Authors: | Smith Alice E., Norman Bryan A., Konak Abdullah, Kulturel-Konak Sadan |
| Keywords: | programming: integer |
This paper presents a mixed-integer programming formulation to find optimal solutions for the block layout problem with unequal departmental areas arranged in flexible bays. The nonlinear department area constraints are modeled in a continuous plane without using any surrogate constraints. The formulation is extensively tested on problems from the literature.