Applying the sequence-pair representation to optimal facility layout designs

Authors:
Russell D. Meller;Weiping Chen;Hanif D. Sherali
Affiliations:
Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701, USA;Grado Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA;Grado Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA
Venue:
Operations Research Letters
Year:
2007

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Abstract

We present a new formulation for the facility layout problem based on the sequence-pair representation, which is used successfully in VLSI design. By tightening the structure of the problem with this formulation, we have extended the solvable solution space from problems with nine departments to problems with eleven departments.