Harmony search for the layout design of an unequal area facility
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Highlights：
• We consider a layout design of unequal area facilities.
• Harmony search method is applied with modification to improve its performance.
• An effective slicing tree representation for layout configuration is presented.
• New penalty scheme for solution selection is introduced.
• The proposed approach generates the favorable solutions for well-known problem set.
摘要
•We consider a layout design of unequal area facilities.•Harmony search method is applied with modification to improve its performance.•An effective slicing tree representation for layout configuration is presented.•New penalty scheme for solution selection is introduced.•The proposed approach generates the favorable solutions for well-known problem set.
论文关键词：Facility design,Meta-heuristic,Material handling,Harmony search,Unequal area facility layout problem
论文评审过程：Received 14 January 2017, Revised 18 February 2017, Accepted 28 February 2017, Available online 2 March 2017, Version of Record 11 March 2017.
论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2017.02.047
