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authors
Liggett, Robin S.
year
2000
title
Automated facilities layout: past, present and future
source
Automation in Construction 9 (2) (2000) pp. 197-215
summary
This paper reviews the history of automated facility layout, focusing particularly on a set of techniques which optimize a single objective function. Applications of algorithms to a variety of space allocation problems are presented and evaluated. Guidelines for future implementations of commercial systems are suggested.