Publications: Manufacturing

Automated discovery and utilization of tacit knowledge in facility layout planning and optimization

This paper puts forth a novel methodology for facilities layout planning and optimization, where the fitness evaluation of layout alternatives is automatically performed by employing an artificial n

A Comparison of Meta-Heuristics for Flexible Manufacturing Systems

Evolutionary algorithms have been a popular approach to finding schedules for flexible manufacturing systems. These algorithms, while effective, are dependent on the quality of initial populations a