Miguel Anjos, PhD, FCAE, FEUROPT, SMIEEE

Miguel.F.Anjos@ed.ac.uk

Layout problems are concerned with the optimal location of departments according to a given objective function. Layout problems arise in different areas of applications and hence encompass several classes of optimization problems.

The following databases of layout are available on this site:

• SRFLP (Single-Row Facility Layout Problems)
  • Instances from Simmons, DM (1969) One-dimensional space allocation: An ordering algorithm. Operations Research 17(5): 812-826.
  • Instances from Love RF, Wong JY (1976) On solving a one-dimensional space allocation problem with integer programming. INFOR 14(2): 139-143
  • Instances from Heragu-Kusiak (1991)
  • Instances from Anjos-Kennings-Vannelli (2005)
  • Instances from Anjos-Yen (2009)
  • Instances from Hungerländer-Rendl (2010)
  • Instances from Hungerländer-Anjos (2012):
    • Data for small instances
    • Best layouts for small instances
    • Data for medium and large instances
    • Best layouts for medium and large instances
  • Instances from Hungerländer (2012):
    • Instances
    • Bounds and best orderings
    • Best solutions by Ghosh and Kothari (as of December 2012)

• DRFLP (Double-Row Facility Layout Problems)
  
  • Instances from  A. R. S. Amaral. On duplex arrangement of vertices. Technical report, Departamento de Informatica, Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo (UFES), Brazil, 2011

• Unequal-Areas Facility Layout
  
  • Instances from Jankovits et al. (2011)
  • Instances from Anjos and Vieira (2015)

• Instances for CDAP (Cross-Dock Assignment Problems)
  

• Corridor Allocation Problem
  
  • Instances from Ahonen et al. (2013)

• Parallel Row Ordering Problem (PROP)
  
  • Instances from the paper entitled "A parallel ordering problem in facilities layout"