Fuzzy decision support system for manufacturing facilities layout planning

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 305-314

  Deb, S K ^a,c   Bhattacharyya, B ^b  

^a Jorhat Engineering College   (India)

^b JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c GAUHATI UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Dead space; Facility layout; Flow cost; Fuzzy decision; Minimum required area

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); DECISION MAKING; FUNCTIONS; FUZZY SETS; LINGUISTICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SET THEORY;

DEAD SPACE; FACILITY LAYOUT; FLOW COSTS; FUZZY DECISION; MINIMUM REQUIRED AREA;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

EID: 13944250354     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2003.12.007     Document Type: Article

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