“Thebook under review is a very good source … continuing the long term passion ofPanos Pardalos and his collaborators in exact solution of difficult problems … .It also adds a very valuable contribution to the body of knowledge of the cellformation problem that can be used in both teaching and research including inbioinformatics.” (Boris Mirkin, Optimization Letters, 2015)

• 1. The problem of cell formation.- 2. ​The p-Median problem.- 3. Application of the PMP to cell formation in group technology.- 4. The minimum multicut problem and an exact model for cell formation.- 5. Multiobjective nature of cell formation.- 6. Pattern-based heuristic for the cell formation problem in group technology.- 7. Branch-and-bound algorithm for bi-criterion cell formation problems.- 8. Summary and conclusions.- A. Solutions to the 35 CF instances from [71].- Index.- References.

“Thebook under review is a very good source … continuing the long term passion ofPanos Pardalos and his collaborators in exact solution of difficult problems … .It also adds a very valuable contribution to the body of knowledge of the cellformation problem that can be used in both teaching and research including inbioinformatics.” (Boris Mirkin, Optimization Letters, 2015)

• 1. The problem of cell formation.- 2. ​The p-Median problem.- 3. Application of the PMP to cell formation in group technology.- 4. The minimum multicut problem and an exact model for cell formation.- 5. Multiobjective nature of cell formation.- 6. Pattern-based heuristic for the cell formation problem in group technology.- 7. Branch-and-bound algorithm for bi-criterion cell formation problems.- 8. Summary and conclusions.- A. Solutions to the 35 CF instances from [71].- Index.- References.