Single- and multi-objective facility layout with workflow interference considerations

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 174, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1414-1426

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF TULSA   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Assignment; Combinatorial optimization; Facilities planning and design

Indexed keywords

COMBINATORIAL MATHEMATICS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

ASSIGNMENTS; COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION; FACILITIES PLANNING AND DESIGN;

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

EID: 33746805502     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2005.03.007     Document Type: Article

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