Handling qualitative aspects in Unequal Area Facility Layout Problem: An Interactive Genetic Algorithm

Applied Soft Computing Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1718-1727

  Garcia Hernandez, L ^a   Pierreval, H ^b   Salas Morera, L ^a   Arauzo Azofra, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL   (France)

Author keywords

Evolutionary Computation; Expert knowledge; Interactive Genetic Algorithm; Unequal Area Facility Layout Problem

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKERS; EXPERT KNOWLEDGE; FUZZY C-MEANS CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; HEURISTIC OPTIMIZATION; INTERACTIVE GENETIC ALGORITHM; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; QUALITATIVE ASPECTS; SEARCH PROCESS; UNEQUAL AREA FACILITY LAYOUT PROBLEMS;

ALGORITHMS; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; FUZZY CLUSTERING; OPTIMIZATION;

PLANT LAYOUT;

EID: 84873680626     PISSN: 15684946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asoc.2013.01.003     Document Type: Article

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