Article ID: | iaor1997441 |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Volume: | 34 |
Issue: | 10 |
Start Page Number: | 2963 |
End Page Number: | 2966 |
Publication Date: | Oct 1996 |
Journal: | International Journal of Production Research |
Authors: | Griffin J.W., Watson K.H. |
Keywords: | heuristics, computational analysis |
TESSA is a facility layout heuristic for obtaining a maximal planar adjacency graph from relationship chart data. Computational experiments performed by Boswell have shown that the algorithm produces good quality solutions, almost all of which are above 90% of the often unattainable upper bound. In this paper the authors show that the heuristic displays arbitrarily bad theoretical worst case performance.