Facilities layout design optimization with single loop material flow path configuration

DOI10.1080/00207549508930143zbMath0914.90126OpenAlexW2065803441MaRDI QIDQ4398901

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Publication date: 1 June 1999

Published in: International Journal of Production Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/00207549508930143

zbMATH Keywords

genetic approachbidirectional flow problemfacilities layout design optimizationsingle loop material flow path

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of mathematical programming (90C90) Learning and adaptive systems in artificial intelligence (68T05) Production models (90B30) Deterministic network models in operations research (90B10) Combinatorial optimization (90C27)

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