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Applications of Plausible, Paradoxical, and Neutrosophical Reasoning for Information Fusion (The Sixth International Conference on Information Fusion)
July 8-11, 2003
Radison Plaza Hotel at the Pier
Cairns, Queensland, Australia

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Chair: Dr. Jean Dezert, Co-Chair: Dr. Florentin Smarandache; Sponsors: Fusion 2003 Organizers, ONERA (France), University of New Mexico (USA)

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Modified Assignment (MASS) Algorithm - A Semi-heuristic Technique of Optimal Plant Layout Design for Process-focused Systems
by
M. Khoshnevisan
Griffith University Australia , Sharif University of Technology , Iran and Bond University
Coauthors: Sukanto Bhattacharya (Bond University)

In this paper we have proposed a semi-heuristic optimization algorithm for designing optimal plant layouts in process-focused manufacturing/service facilities. Our proposed algorithm marries the well-known CRAFT (Computerized Relative Allocation of Facilities Technique) with the Hungarian assignment algorithm. Being a semi-heuristic search, our algorithm is likely to be more efficient in terms of computer CPU engagement time as it tends to converge on the global optimum faster than the traditional CRAFT algorithm - a pure heuristic. We also present a numerical illustration of our algorithm.

Date received: October 9, 2002

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