Using eye-tracking into decision makers evaluation in evolutionary interactive UA-FLP algorithms

Abstract

Unequal area facility layout problem is an important issue in the design of industrial plants, as well as other fields such as hospitals or schools, among others. While participating in an interactive designing process, the human user is required to evaluate a high number of proposed solutions, which produces them fatigue both mental and physical. In this paper, the use of eye-tracking to estimate user's evaluations from gaze behavior is investigated. The results show that, after a process of training and data taking, it is possible to obtain a good enough estimation of the user's evaluations which is independent of the problem and of the users as well. These promising results advice to use eyetracking as a substitute for the mouse during users' evaluations.

A conceptual framework for integrating Facility Layout and Production Scheduling in Flowshop Manufacturing Cells decisions

“…In addition, https://doi.org/10.24050/reia.v19i38.1543 the results of the review included the identification of metaheuristic and heuristic algorithms (França et al, 2005;García-Hernández et al, 2020b;Palomo-Romero et al, 2017;Schaller et al, 2000), as well as exact methods (Meller et al, 2007;Naderi and Salmasi, 2012;Salmasi et al, 2010;Sherali et al, 2003), as solution techniques for solving these problems. Among these approaches, matheuristic algorithms and artificial intelligence techniques are seen as potential solution tools for future approaches to these problems (Bozer and Wang, 2012;García-Hernández et al, 2013;Salas-Morera et al, 2020). Other operations management decisions, such as cell formation and layout decisions (Alimian et al, 2020;, production planning (Ah kioon et al, 2009) and the design of reconfigurable and flexible manufacturing systems (Balaji and Porselvi, 2014;Renna and Ambrico, 2015), among others, were found to be appropriate as complementary decisions.…”

“…• Solution techniques: Regarding solution techniques some authors have focused their research on developing high-performance metaheuristic algorithms (García-Hernández et al, 2019, 2020bKomarudin and Wong, 2010;Kulturel-Konak and Konak, 2011;Paes et al, 2017;Palomo-Romero et al, 2017;Salas-Morera et al, 2020;Ulutas and Kulturel-Konak, 2012), as well as matheuristic approaches (Bozer and Wang, 2012;Chang and Ku, 2013;Gonçalves and Resende, 2015;Kulturel-Konak, 2012;Kulturel-Konak and Konak, 2013;Xiao et al, 2016). Other authors have proposed the integration of metaheuristics with expert systems (García-Hernández et al, 2020a, 2015Salas-Morera et al, 2020). Multicriteria decision-making methods have also been considered for the solution of the problem (Aiello et al, 2013(Aiello et al, , 2006.…”

A Multi-User Interactive Coral Reef Optimization Algorithm for Considering Expert Knowledge in the Unequal Area Facility Layout Problem

“…Moreover, in recent years, qualitative aspects have been taken into account too [9][10][11] with the aim of incorporating expert human knowledge into the design [12]. These qualitative aspects can be related to the relative position between facilities, aesthetic aspects, or personal subjective preferences of the designers, based on their personal background and experience, and can be previously known or simply appear during the algorithm evolution process, or they can even change during the execution time [13].…”