We consider a very general case of the facility layout problem, which allows incorporating various aspects appearing in real life applications. These aspects include loose requirements on facilities' footprints, each of which only needs to be of rectangular shape and can optionally be restricted...

In this paper a slicing tree based tabu search heuristic for the rectangular, continual plane facility layout problem is presented. In addition to the incorporation of facilities with unequal areas we also integrate the possibility to specify various requirements regarding (rectangular) shape...

Probleme der Layout- bzw. innerbetrieblichen Standortplanung gehören mathematisch zu den schwierigsten Problemen der kombinatorischen Optimierung. Daniel Scholz bietet einen Überblick zum aktuellen Forschungsstand der Layout- bzw. innerbetrieblichen Standortplanung, d.h. der kostenminimalen...