The outcomes from the first experiments are used for optimally setting the parameters of our proposal in the second simulation study focused on verifying its effectiveness for objects with uniform and variable sizes.
The influence of the proposed algorithm parameters on the effectiveness of our approach is then examined in a simulation experiment involving four different types of facility layout problems.
Next, the detailed description of our LP version of simulated annealing is presented. The article describes shortly the linguistic patterns and shows on a simple illustrative example the idea of using the Łukasiewicz formula as a criterion for the facility layout optimization.
The paper presents a novel version of the simulated annealing algorithm based on linguistic patterns (LP) and fuzzy theory approach.
