A Literature Review on Circle and Sphere Packing Problems: Models and Methodologies
This paper reviews the most relevant literature on efficient models and methods for packing circular objects/items into Euclidean plane regions where the objects/items and regions are either two- or three-dimensional. These packing problems are NP hard optimization problems with a wide variety of ap...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Hindawi Limited
2009-01-01
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Series: | Advances in Operations Research |
Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2009/150624 |