In this paper, we propose a facility layout design system using Interactive EvolutionaryComputation (IEC). Facility Layout Problem (FLP) is concerned with `finding the ``most efficient"arrangement of departments within a facility'. In much of the research, the 'efficiency' of thearrangement is measured by the material handling costs, that can be expressed as the product of distancetimes fows between departments. The facility layout planning in practice, however, needs differentcriteria considering productive, financial and environmental factors, and thus, the most algorithms arenot directly applicable for most industrial application. In this paper, we applied IEC that optimizes thefacility layout based on human subjective evaluation. We used the original fitness inference system thatenables efficient reflection of evaluator's concept with less human evaluation effort.
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