A GRASP method for the Bi-Objective Multiple Row Equal Facility Layout Problem

Abstract

The Bi-Objective Multiple Row Equal Facility Layout Problem considers both quantitative and qualitative objectives that are very useful in many scenarios like the factory design. In this work, a new multi-objective GRASP approach is proposed which applies an ensemble of four different constructive methods followed by the combination of two local search procedures, improving the results from the state of the art. Due to the superiority of this proposal, a new dataset of larger problem instances is generated, providing detailed metrics of the obtained solutions.

Publication
Applied Soft Computing
Nicolas Rodriguez Uribe
Nicolas Rodriguez Uribe
Phd in Artificial Intelligence
Alberto Herrán González
Alberto Herrán González
Associate Professor
J. Manuel Colmenar
J. Manuel Colmenar
Full Professor

My research interests are focused on metaheuristics applied to optimization problems. I have worked on different combinatorial optimization problems applying trajectorial algorithms such us GRASP or VNS. Besides, I am very interested in applications of Grammatical Evolution, specifically in model and prediction domain, as alternative to machine learning approaches.