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The dynamic facility layout problem (DFLP) is the problem of placing facilities in a certain plant floor for multiple stages so that facilities do not overlap and the sum of the material handling and rearrangement costs are minimized. We describe a model, where the facilities have unequal-areas and the layout for each stage is produced on the continuous plant floor. The most difficulty of solving...