Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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479224 | European Journal of Operational Research | 2007 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
The single loop material flow system design is a combinatorial optimization problem, arising in material handling system design, which amounts to designing an unidirectional loop flow pattern as well as to locate pickup and delivery stations. The objective is to minimize the time required to carry out all material flow movements between cells. In this paper, we develop valid inequalities for a previously proposed formulation. The valid inequalities are then embedded into a branch-and-cut framework which is shown to solve much larger instances to optimality than those reported in the literature. A tailored tabu search heuristic is also illustrated and computationally assessed.
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Authors
Pierpaolo Caricato, Gianpaolo Ghiani, Antonio Grieco, Roberto Musmanno,