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Calculate the centroids of departments in initial layout
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Calculate rectilinear distances between centroids and store in a distance matrix
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Calculate the initial layout cost (objective function)
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Consider all possible 2-way and 3-way exchanges and identify the best exchange
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Perform best exchange and repeat process until no further reduction is obtained Result: a 2-opt or 3-opt
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