en Construction Management Construction Management Research Paper Research Paper <p align="left"><i><font color="#231f20" face="Times New Roman" size="2"><font color="#231f20" face="Times New Roman" size="2"><font color="#231f20" face="Times New Roman" size="2">This paper presents a strategy for using Harmony Search algorithm in facility layout optimization problems. In this paper an</font></font></font></i></p> <p align="left"><i><font color="#231f20" face="Times New Roman" size="2"><font color="#231f20" face="Times New Roman" size="2"><font color="#231f20" face="Times New Roman" size="2">adapted harmony search algorithm is developed for solving facility layout optimization problems. This method finds an optimal</font></font></font></i></p> <p align="left"><i><font color="#231f20" face="Times New Roman" size="2"><font color="#231f20" face="Times New Roman" size="2"><font color="#231f20" face="Times New Roman" size="2">facility arrangement in an existing layout. Two real-world case studies are employed to demonstrate the efficiency of this model.</font></font></font></i></p> <p><i><font color="#231f20" face="Times New Roman" size="2"><font color="#231f20" face="Times New Roman" size="2"><font color="#231f20" face="Times New Roman" size="2">A comparison is also made to illustrate the efficiency of these strategies in facility layout optimization</font></font></font></i></p> Facility layout optimization, Architecture, Adapted harmony search algorithm 37 42 http://ijce.iust.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-218-3&slc_lang=en&sid=1 A. Kaveh alikaveh@iust.ac.ir 180031947532846009767 180031947532846009767 Yes Professor, Iran University of Science and Technology, Narmak,Tehran-16, Iran A. Shakouri Mahmud Abadi abbasshakori@gmail.com 180031947532846009768 180031947532846009768 No Graduate student, Building and Housing Research Center, Tehran-14, Iran S. Zolfaghari Moghaddam Zolfaghri @yahoo.com 180031947532846009769 180031947532846009769 No Undergraduate student, Hekmat Institute of Higher Education,Qom, Iran