This paper addresses the office layout problem where existing offices vary considerably as to relevant criteria and yet permanent walls make it impractical to remodel existing spaces. The major objective of this study was the equitable reassignment of 144 offices to 289 faculty and staff members...

The retrieval of items from storage is a chore faced by virtually every business concern. Walk/ride and pick systems are a popular method for performing this chore in many applications. When retrieval requests consist of multiple items, order pickers must travel to numerous storage locations to...

This note provides a brief comparison between a three-dimensional layout planning system recently described in Management Science (Johnson [Johnson, Roger V. 1982. SPACECRAFT for multi-floor layout planning. Management Sci. 28 (4, April) 407--417.]) and a similar system developed earlier (Cinar...

This paper describes a new system capable of solving detailed facility layout problems. The system allows the consideration of multiple objectives on the layout solution. Criteria related to weighted distance between interacting layout elements, the structure of the final layout design, the use...