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A Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithm for the Linear Shelf Space Allocation Problem

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This paper presents a multiobjetive approach to solve the Linear Shelf Space Allocation Problem (LiSSAP), which consists on allocating lengths of shelves in a given shop to specific products or groups of products. Previously we gave the first steps towards the development of a commercially viable tool that used evolutionary computation to address the problem; in this paper we introduce MELiSSA, standing for Multiobjective Evolutionary Linear Shelf-Space Allocation, and test it on two real problem configurations, yielding very good results.

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Esparcia-Alcázar, A.I. et al. (2008). A Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithm for the Linear Shelf Space Allocation Problem. In: Rudolph, G., Jansen, T., Beume, N., Lucas, S., Poloni, C. (eds) Parallel Problem Solving from Nature – PPSN X. PPSN 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5199. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-87700-4_99

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