Planar area location/layout problem in the presence of generalized congested regions with the rectilinear distance metric

IIE Transactions (Institute of Industrial Engineers)

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 35-50

  Sarkar, Avijit ^a   Batta, Rajan ^a   Nagi, Rakesh ^a  

^a State University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ASSEMBLY; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; LOCATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PLANT LAYOUT;

FACILITY LAYOUT; FACILITY LOCATION; GENERALIZED CONGESTED REGION;

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

EID: 11944252425     PISSN: 0740817X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07408170590516809     Document Type: Article

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