ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION FOR THE UNEQUAL-AREA FACILITY LAYOUT PROBLEM

Sadan Kulturel-Konak, Abdullah Konak

2011

Abstract

In this paper, an ant colony optimization (ACO) approach is proposed to solve the Facility Layout Problem (FLP) with unequal area departments. The flexible bay structure (FBS) is relaxed by allowing empty spaces in bays, which results in more flexibility while assigning departments in bays. The comparative results show that the ACO approach is very promising.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Kulturel-Konak S. and Konak A. (2011). ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION FOR THE UNEQUAL-AREA FACILITY LAYOUT PROBLEM . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Evolutionary Computation Theory and Applications - Volume 1: ECTA, (IJCCI 2011) ISBN 978-989-8425-83-6, pages 273-277. DOI: 10.5220/0003627302730277

in Bibtex Style

@conference{ecta11,
author={Sadan Kulturel-Konak and Abdullah Konak},
title={ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION FOR THE UNEQUAL-AREA FACILITY LAYOUT PROBLEM},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Evolutionary Computation Theory and Applications - Volume 1: ECTA, (IJCCI 2011)},
year={2011},
pages={273-277},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003627302730277},
isbn={978-989-8425-83-6},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Evolutionary Computation Theory and Applications - Volume 1: ECTA, (IJCCI 2011)
TI - ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION FOR THE UNEQUAL-AREA FACILITY LAYOUT PROBLEM
SN - 978-989-8425-83-6
AU - Kulturel-Konak S.
AU - Konak A.
PY - 2011
SP - 273
EP - 277
DO - 10.5220/0003627302730277