A Cluster-Analytic Approach to Facility Layout
提出一种名为FLAC的新算法，通过模拟工业工程师的视觉方法来解决设施布局问题，在高低流量主导和有无线路主导的情况下均表现良好，计算时间有吸引力。
Due to the combinatorial nature of the facility layout problem, current heuristic computer procedures do not always provide better solutions than visual methods. A new algorithm, FLAC (Facility Layout by Analysis of Clusters), is described which emulates the visual methods used by industrial engineers in solving facility layout problems. Initially side-stepping the combinatorial nature of the problem, FLAC is found to perform well in problems with high as well as low flow dominance, and in the presence and absence of line dominance. Computation time is attractive, especially on larger problems.