An Approach to Ship Deck Arrangement Optimization Problem Using an Improved Multiobjective Hybrid Genetic Algorithm

Table 1

The nomenclature for the formulation of the deck arrangement optimization problem.

Nomenclature
	Arranged object
	The number of arranged objects
	Ship breadth
	Adjacency and separation evaluators
	Objective function
	Weight coefficients of evaluators and
	Normalized coefficient
	Material flow cost matrix
	Separation satisfaction of and
	Connection distance of and
	Interval distance of and on direction
	Area of
	Area of deck space
	The length of bulkheads shared by and
	The set of arranged objects
	Deck space
	Ship length
	Compactness and bulkheads utilization evaluators
	Constraints set
	Weight coefficients of evaluators and
	Material flow frequency matrix
	Separation relationship matrix
	Overlapping of and
	Separation distance of and
	Interval distance of and on direction
	Overlapping area of and
	Deck utilization