Title
An evolutionary neural system for incorporating expert knowledge into the UA-FLP.
Abstract
This paper presents a hybrid system for incorporating human expert knowledge into the unequal area facility layout problem. A subset of facility designs is generated using a genetic algorithm and then evaluated by a human expert. The hybrid system consists of assigning a mark, where the principal aim is to substitute the human expert's knowledge to avoid fatiguing or burdening him or her. The novel proposed approach was tested using a real case study of 365 facility layout designs for an ovine slaughterhouse. The validation phase of the intelligent model presented was performed using a new subset of 181 facility layout designs evaluated by a different human expert. The results of the experiment, which validate the proposed approach, are presented and discussed in this study.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1016/j.neucom.2013.01.068
Neurocomputing
Keywords
Field
DocType
Evolutionary Computation,Artificial neural networks,Unequal area facility layout problem,Genetic algorithm,Heuristic search
Heuristic,Facility layout problem,Evolutionary computation,Neural system,Facility layout,Artificial intelligence,Artificial neural network,Hybrid system,Mathematics,Genetic algorithm,Machine learning
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
135
C
0925-2312
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.39
19
Authors
5