TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bader Abdulkreem Alablani
AU  - Sherif Adel Fahmy , 
AU  - Tamer Farouk Abdelmaguid , 
TI  - Solving the facility layout design problem for service industries using tabu search : : Application on shopping centers / 
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Cairo : 
PB  - Bader Abdulkreem Alablani , 
KW  - Facility layout
KW  - Flow capturing
KW  - Shopping center design
N1  - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Engineering - Department of Mechanical Design and Production; Issued also as CD
N2  - 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
ER  -