Bader Abdulkreem Alablani <br/><br/>
Solving the facility layout design problem for service industries using tabu search :   Application on shopping centers /  
 حل مشكلة تصميم المنشأه للصناعات الخدمية بإستخدام أسلوب البحث المحظور :   تطبيق على مراكز التسوق   
Bader Abdulkreem Alablani ; Supervised Tamer F. Abdelmaguid , Sherif A. Fahmy 
 - Cairo :   Bader Abdulkreem Alablani ,   2016 
 - 50 P. :   charts , plans ;   30cm 
<br/><br/>Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Engineering - Department of Mechanical Design and Production  
<br/><br/> In this thesis, the problem of shopping center layout design is studied. Assignment of stores to locations in a shopping center is performed in a way that ensures balance in the distribution of flow across all shopping center areas. This study proposes a facility layout assignment model for shopping centers with the objective of maximizing flow capturing in each location and balancing it across all shopping center areas. Flow capturing techniques are used to measure customer traffic share at every location. The model also calculates the flow in each area (block) in the center as a combination of the flows at locations that belong to that area 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Facility layout Flow capturing Shopping center design