(1) Center for Applied Optimization, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611-6595, USA
Abstract:
The facility layout problem (FLP) has many practical applications and is known to be NP-hard. During recent decades exact and heuristic approaches have been proposed in the literature to solve FLPs. In this paper we review the most recent developments regardingsimulated annealing and genetic algorithms for solvingfacility layout problems approximately.