Facility layout planning (FLP) involves a set of design problems related to the arrangement elements that shape industrial production systems in physical space. The fact they are considered one most important decisions as part business operation strategies, and their proven repercussion on systems’ costs, efficiency productivity, mean this theme has been widely addressed science. In context, pr...

The unequal area facility design problem has been studied in the literature generally by considering block layout separate from detailed design. This paper shows a tractable method for concurrently optimizing department shape and location within the facility, and selection of the appropriate number of input/output (I/O) stations per department and then optimally locating them. The distance metr...

We present a nested local search algorithm to approximate several variants of metric two-stage stochastic facility location problems. These problems are generalizations of the well-studied metric uncapacitated facility location problem, taking uncertainties in demand values and costs into account. The proposed nested local search procedure uses three facility operations: adding, dropping, and s...