Determining aisle structures for facility designs using a hierarchy of algorithms

IIE Transactions (Institute of Industrial Engineers)

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1019-1031

  Alagoz, Oguzhan ^a   Norman, Bryan A ^b   Smith, Alice E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

^c AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aisle; Aisle construction; Facility layout design; Genetic algorithms; Heuristic

Indexed keywords

BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; KETONES; LINEARIZATION; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING;

AISLE; AISLE CONSTRUCTION; BLOCK LAYOUT; FACILITY LAYOUT DESIGN; HEURISTIC;

HEURISTIC PROGRAMMING;

EID: 51149109926     PISSN: 0740817X     EISSN: 15458830     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07408170802167621     Document Type: Article

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