A novel hybrid evolutionary approach for capturing decision maker knowledge into the unequal area facility layout problem
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Highlights：
• We are concerned with an unequal area facility layout problem.
• Existing approaches are normally based on optimization, which can be insufficient in certain cases.
• Our interactive genetic algorithm involves the decision maker in the search for a suited solution.
• Our new approach based on niching methods is tested with two real problem cases.
摘要
•We are concerned with an unequal area facility layout problem.•Existing approaches are normally based on optimization, which can be insufficient in certain cases.•Our interactive genetic algorithm involves the decision maker in the search for a suited solution.•Our new approach based on niching methods is tested with two real problem cases.
论文关键词：Unequal area facility layout problem,Interactive evolutionary computation,Expert knowledge,Niching method
论文评审过程：Available online 9 February 2015.
论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2015.01.037
