An improved pair-wise exchange heuristic for the dynamic plant layout problem

International Journal of Production Research

Volumn 38, Issue 13, 2000, Pages 3067-3077

  Balakrishnan, Jaydeep ^a   Cheng, Chun Hung ^b   Conway, Daniel G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; HEURISTIC METHODS; MATERIALS HANDLING; PLANNING;

DYNAMIC PLANT LAYOUT PROBLEMS (DPLP);

PLANT LAYOUT;

EID: 0034633375     PISSN: 00207543     EISSN: 1366588X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207540050117440     Document Type: Article

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