Packing equal circles in a square: A deterministic global optimization approach

Discrete Applied Mathematics

Volumn 122, Issue 1-3, 2002, Pages 139-166

  Locatelli, Marco ^a   Raber, Ulrich ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Branch and bound; Circle packing; Global optimization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867958818     PISSN: 0166218X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-218X(01)00359-6     Document Type: Article

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