Humans vs. Computer Algorithms for the Plant Layout Problem

Publisher Website
Google Scholar
Abstract
An experiment with plant layout formulated as a quadratic assignment problem gave the following results: (1) The CRAFT algorithm does as well as human subjects in solving the plant layout problem; (2) CRAFT does better as problem size increases if the human subjects have no prior knowledge of the computer solution values; (3) there is no breakpoint in relative problem solving ability between humans and computers at 200% flow dominance (the coefficient of variation of the flow matrix expressed as a percent); (4) the point at which the computer becomes better, as opposed to equally good, is more clearly indicated by problem size than by flow dominance; (5) humans can solve problems with high flow dominance and problems with near-zero flow dominance better than they can solve problems with low flow dominance, though the computer is still at least as good across all levels of flow dominance.

This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: