A 0/1 integer programming model for the office space allocation problem

Ulker, Ozgr; Landa-Silva, Dario

Abstract

We propose a 0/1 integer programming model to tackle the office space allocation (OSA) problem which refers to assigning room space to a set of entities (people, machines, roles, etc.), with the goal of optimising the space utilisation while satisfying a set of additional requirements. In the proposed approach, these requirements can be modelled as constraints (hard constraints) or as objectives (soft constraints). Then, we conduct some experiments on benchmark instances and observe that setting certain constraints as hard (actual constraints) or soft (objectives) has a significant impact on the computational difficulty on this combinatorial optimisation problem.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Aug 1, 2010
• Journal: Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics
• Print ISSN: 1571-0653
• Electronic ISSN: 1571-0653
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 36
• APA6 Citation: Ulker, O., & Landa-Silva, D. (2010). A 0/1 integer programming model for the office space allocation problem. Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics, 36, doi:10.1016/j.endm.2010.05.073
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.endm.2010.05.073
• Keywords: space planning, problem formulation, mathematical programming, exact algorithms
• Publisher URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1571065310000740
• Copyright Statement: Copyright information regarding this work can be found at the following address: http://eprints.nottingh.../end_user_agreement.pdf
• Additional Information: Note: Presented at the 2010 International Symposium on Combinatorial Optimization (ISCO 2010), Hammamet Tunisia, March 2010.