Facility Layout

Miguel F. Anjos is Chair of Operational Research at the School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh, UK, and Inria International Chair. His research interests are in the theory, algorithms and applications of mathematical optimization. He was Editor-in-Chief of Optimization and Engineering, and sits on several other international editorial boards. His accolades include a Canada Research Chair, an NSERC Industrial Research Chair, a Humboldt Fellowship, the title of EUROPT Fellow, and the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering.
Manuel V.C. Vieira is Assistant Professor at Nova University of Lisbon, and member of the research centers CMA-UNL (Portugal) and GERAD (Canada). He received his PhD from TU Delft, The Netherlands, 2008. In his research, he has covered topics such as interior-point methods and satisfiability. More recently he became interested in applying mathematical optimization to problems originating from industry, namely layout problems and the container loading problem. He was guest editor for a special issue on facility layout of IFOR, the journal of the Canadian Operational Research Society.

Provides an introduction to layout as a challenging OR problem