Mathematical modeling and multi-start search simulated annealing for unequal-area facility layout problem

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Highlights：

• A continuous approach for unequal-area facility layout problem is tackled.

• A Mixed Integer Non-Linear Programming (MINLP) model is developed.

• A multi-start search Simulated Annealing (SA) is developed.

• A heuristic algorithm is used to initialize SA search.

• Overall results show superiority and soundness of total developed methodology.

摘要

•A continuous approach for unequal-area facility layout problem is tackled.•A Mixed Integer Non-Linear Programming (MINLP) model is developed.•A multi-start search Simulated Annealing (SA) is developed.•A heuristic algorithm is used to initialize SA search.•Overall results show superiority and soundness of total developed methodology.

论文关键词：Facility layout problem,Unequal-area facilities,Mathematical modeling,Heuristics,Metaheuristics

论文评审过程：Received 12 November 2015, Revised 27 July 2017, Accepted 28 July 2017, Available online 29 July 2017, Version of Record 5 October 2017.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2017.07.049