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Title: Population Heuristics for the Corridor Allocation Problem
Authors: Ghosh, Diptesh
Kothari, Ravi
Keywords: Facility planning and design;corridor allocation;double row layout;Genetic algorithm;Scatter search;path relinking
Issue Date: 22-Nov-2013
Series/Report no.: ;W.P. No. 2012-09-02
Abstract: The corridor allocation problem is one of assigning a given set of facilities in two rows along a straight corridor so as to minimize a weighted sum of the distances between every pair of facilities. This problem has practical applications in arrangements of rooms in o ces and in hospitals. The problem is NP-hard. In this paper, we present two population based metaheuristic implementations for the problem; a genetic algorithm with local search embedded in it, and a scatter search algorithm with path relinking. We report the results of our experiments with these algorithms on benchmark instances with up to 49 facilities.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/11718/11391
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