Incorporating workflow interference in facility layout design: The quartic assignment problem

Management Science

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 584-590

  Chiang, Wen Chyuan ^a   Kouvelis, Panagiotis ^a,b   Urban, Timothy L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TULSA   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Facility Layout Analysis; Heuristics; Nonlinear Optimization; Quartic Assignment Problem

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED MANUFACTURING; FACILITIES; HEURISTIC METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; TRANSPORTATION CHARGES;

TRANSPORTATION COSTS;

PLANT LAYOUT;

EID: 0036541608     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.48.4.584.206     Document Type: Article

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