An improved algorithm for the packing of unequal circles within a larger containing circle

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 141, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 440-453

  Wang, Huaiqing ^a   Huang, Wenqi ^b   Zhang, Quan ^a   Xu, Dongming ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Adoptive search; Modeling; Optimisation; Packing; Tabu search

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONTAINERS; OPTIMIZATION; PACKING; PROBLEM SOLVING;

TABU SEARCH;

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

EID: 0036722354     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-2217(01)00241-7     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. The continuous reactive tabu search: Blending combinatorial optimization and stochastic search for global optimization
2. Tabu search applied to global optimization
3. Palletisation of cylinders in cases
4. Integrated container loading software for pulp and paper industry
5. Packing different-sized circles into a rectangular container
6. Approximation schemes for covering and packing problems in image processing and VLSI
7. Heuristiken zur lösung des zweidimensionalen packproblems für rundgefäße
8. Optimization by simulated annealing
9. Complexity of packing, covering, and partitioning problems
10. Curved hexagonal packings of equal disks in a circle
11. Packing up to 50 equal circles in a square