ABSTRACT
Closeness scoring techniques are a simple first step to computer-aided layout planning. A number of these computer aids stop with activity assignment, leaving the final block plan to manual methods. This is sufficient in many multistory office settings for which these routines have generally been developed. Planning ADES was a set of card input programs for use on IBM 360 and 370 mainframe computers. A successor to these programs has been developed for the Apple IIe using interactive graphics and more effective design algorithms. Most of the algorithms described require a large mainframe computer. Virtually every facilities planner has access to such a machine and enough funds to experiment with the better known programs. The Herman Miller programs were originally developed at the Illinois Institute of Technology by Dr. Charles Owen. The PAINT program employs this approach, using a 12-inch Video 100 monitor.
