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A polyhedral approach to the single row facility layout problem

Research output: Working paper

Published
Publication date2011
Place of PublicationLancaster University
PublisherThe Department of Management Science
Number of pages0
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Publication series

NameManagement Science Working Paper Series

Abstract

The Single Row Facility Layout Problem (SRFLP) is the NP-hard problem of arranging facilities on a line, while minimizing a weighted sum of the distances between facility pairs. In this paper, a detailed polyhedral study of the SRFLP is performed, and several huge classes of valid and facet-inducing inequalities are derived. Some separation heuristics are presented, along with a primal heuristic based on multidimensional scaling. Finally, a branch-and-cut algorithm is described and some encouraging computational results are given.

Bibliographic note

This was eventually published as: A.R.S. Amaral & A.N. Letchford (2013) A polyhedral approach to the single-row facility layout problem. Math. Program., 141(1-2), 453-477.