Description
Book SynopsisThis book focuses on a development of optimal, flexible, and efficient models and algorithms for cell formation in group technology. Its main aim is to provide a reliable tool that can be used by managers and engineers to design manufacturing cells based on their own preferences and constraints imposed by a particular manufacturing system.
Trade Review“The book under review is a very good source … continuing the long term passion of Panos Pardalos and his collaborators in exact solution of difficult problems … . It also adds a very valuable contribution to the body of knowledge of the cell formation problem that can be used in both teaching and research including in bioinformatics.” (Boris Mirkin, Optimization Letters, 2015)
Table of Contents1. The problem of cell formation.- 2. The
p-Median problem.- 3. Application of the PMP to cell formation in group technology.- 4. The minimum multicut problem and an exact model for cell formation.- 5. Multiobjective nature of cell formation.- 6. Pattern-based heuristic for the cell formation problem in group technology.- 7. Branch-and-bound algorithm for bi-criterion cell formation problems.- 8. Summary and conclusions.- A. Solutions to the 35 CF instances from [71].- Index.- References.
