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New heuristic for the dynamic layout problem

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  • E Erel

    (Faculty of Business Administration, Bilkent University)

  • J B Ghosh

    (Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California)

  • J T Simon

    (School of Business, State University of New York at Geneseo)

Abstract

The dynamic layout problem addresses the situation where the traffic among the various units within a facility changes over time. Its objective is to determine a layout for each period in a planning horizon such that the total of the flow and the relocation costs is minimized. The problem is computationally very hard and has begun to receive attention only recently. In this paper, we present a new heuristic scheme, based on the idea of viable layouts, which is easy to operationalize. A limited computational study shows that, depending upon how it is implemented, this scheme can be reasonably fast and can yield results that are competitive with those from other available solution methods.

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  • E Erel & J B Ghosh & J T Simon, 2003. "New heuristic for the dynamic layout problem," Journal of the Operational Research Society, Palgrave Macmillan;The OR Society, vol. 54(12), pages 1275-1282, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:jorsoc:v:54:y:2003:i:12:d:10.1057_palgrave.jors.2601646
    DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.jors.2601646
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