| Article ID: | iaor20001292 |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Volume: | 37 |
| Issue: | 5 |
| Start Page Number: | 1119 |
| End Page Number: | 1135 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 1999 |
| Journal: | International Journal of Production Research |
| Authors: | Grobelny J. |
| Keywords: | layout, graphical methods |
Scatter plots of facilities on the plane are derived from a heuristic procedure proposed by Drezner. Features of this approach have been investigated. It is shown that scatter plots generated by the ‘eigenvectors method’ could differ in quality. It is shown that this quality depends on the input data structure. By the comparison of eigenvector results with those obtained by a special algorithm proposed in this work, general conditions are determined for rational applications of the Drezner approach.