Hospitals are the most complex types of buildings in which a wide range of facilities and services are involved that make the design of facility layout more complex. There has been little research on facility layout design of hospitals. The objective of hospital facility layout design is to...

The Fabrication (Fab) layout design is a strategic issue and has a significant impact on the operational efficiency of semiconductor manufacturing. This research work was motivated by the actual problem to analyse and disperse the congested material flows of central corridor caused by an...

The single row facility layout is the NP-Hard problem of arranging facilities with given lengths on a line, so as to minimize the weighted sum of the distances between all pairs of facilities. Owing to the computational complexity of the problem, researchers have developed several heuristics to...