Multi-Objective Optimization Using Evolutionary Algorithms
Multi-Objective Optimization Using Evolutionary Algorithms
A solution to the unequal area facilities layout problem by genetic algorithm
Computers in Industry - Special issue: Application of genetics algorithms in industry
Pareto Optimal Based Evolutionary Approach for Solving Multi-Objective Facility Layout Problem
ICONIP '09 Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Neural Information Processing: Part II
An adaptive local search based genetic algorithm for solving multi-objective facility layout problem
ICONIP'10 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Neural information processing: theory and algorithms - Volume Part I
ICONIP'10 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Neural information processing: theory and algorithms - Volume Part I
A fast and elitist multiobjective genetic algorithm: NSGA-II
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
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A lot of optimal and heuristic algorithms for solving facility layout problem (FLP) have been developed in the past few decades. The majority of these approaches adopt a problem formulation known as the quadratic assignment problem (QAP) that is particularly suitable for equal area facilities. Unequal area FLP comprises a class of extremely difficult and widely applicable optimization problems arising in many diverse areas to meet the requirements for real-world applications. Unfortunately, most of these approaches are based on a single objective. While, the real-world FLPs are multi-objective by nature. Only very recently have meta-heuristics been designed and used in multi-objective FLP. They most often use the weighted sum method to combine the different objectives and thus, inherit the well-known problems of this method. As of now, there is no formal approach published for the unequal area multi-objective FLP to consider several objectives simultaneously. This paper presents an evolutionary approach for solving multi-objective unequal area FLP using multi-objective genetic algorithm that presents the layout as a set of Pareto-optimal solutions optimizing multiple objectives simultaneously. The experimental results show that the proposed approach performs well in dealing with multi-objective unequal area FLPs which better reflects the real-world scenario.