id: 00433056 dt: a an: 00433056 au: Arbib, Claudio ti: Tool loading problems in FMS and VLSI circuit layout problems. so: Kall, Peter (ed.), System modelling and optimization. Proceedings of the 15th IFIP conference, Zurich, Switzerland, September 2-6, 1991. Berlin: Springer-Verlag. Lect. Notes Control Inf. Sci. 180, 865-874 (1992). py: 1992 pu: Berlin: Springer-Verlag la: EN cc: ut: flexible manufacturing system; VLSI circuit design ci: li: ab: Summary: We discuss some part type selection and tooling problems occurring at a tactical level in FMS planning. Such problems can be formulated in the exact terms of typical problems (PLA folding problems) arising in VLSI circuit design, and therefore inherit their properties and solution techniques. rv: