A reexamination of the distance-based facility layout problem

IIE Transactions (Institute of Industrial Engineers)

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 549-560

  Bozer, Yavuz A ^a   Meller, Russell D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISTANCE MEASUREMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CENTROID TO CENTROID (CTC) MEASURE; DISTANCE BASED FACILITY LAYOUT PROBLEM; EXPECTED DISTANCE (EDIST) MEASURE; QUADRATIC ASSIGNMENT PROBLEM (QAP) APPROACH;

PLANT LAYOUT;

EID: 0031175532     PISSN: 0740817X     EISSN: 15458830     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07408179708966365     Document Type: Article

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