Datta, Dilip; Amaral, André R.S.; Figueira, José Rui - In: European Journal of Operational Research 213 (2011) 2, pp. 388-394
In this paper, a permutation-based genetic algorithm (GA) is applied to the NP-hard problem of arranging a number of facilities on a line with minimum cost, known as the single row facility layout problem (SRFLP). The GA individuals are obtained by using some rule-based as well as random...