The facility layout problem is concerned with the arrangement of a given number of rectangular facilities so as to minimize the total cost associated with the (known or projected) interactions between them. We consider the one-dimensional space allocation problem (ODSAP), also known as the single-row facility layout problem, which consists in finding an optimal linear … Read more
We present a new framework for efficiently finding competitive solutions for the facility-layout problem. This framework is based on the combination of two new mathematical-programming models. The first model is a relaxation of the layout problem and is intended to find good starting points for the iterative algorithm used to solve the second model. The … Read more
We propose and describe a hybrid GRASP with weight perturbations and adaptive path-relinking heuristic (HGP+PR) for the Steiner problem in graphs. In this multi-start approach, the greedy randomized construction phase of a GRASP is replaced by the use of several construction heuristics with a weight perturbation strategy that combines intensification and diversification elements, as in … Read more