A Hybrid Simulated Annealing Algorithm for Single Row Facility Layout Problem

This article addresses a single row facility layout problem where the results obtained by the proposed hybrid meta-heuristic are compared with exact solutions. The results imply that the proposed hybrid method provides more efficient solutions for the large-sized problem instances objective is to optimize the arrangement of some rectangular facilities with different dimensions on a line. Regarding the NP-Hard nature of the considered problem, a hybrid meta-heuristic algorithm based on simulated annealing has been proposed to obtain a near optimal solution

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Fuzzy knowledge based , Facilities planning and design , Flexible manufacturing systems , Genetic & ICA algorithms , Automated Guided Vehicle