Packing unequal circles using formulation space search

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1276-1288

  Lopez C O ^a   Beasley, J E ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Circle packing; Formulation space search

Indexed keywords

CIRCLE PACKING; COMPUTATIONAL RESULTS; OPTIMISATIONS; SMALL VARIATIONS; SPACE SEARCH; UNEQUAL CIRCLES; UNIT CIRCLES; UNIT SQUARES;

CONTAINERS; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION;

GEOMETRY;

EID: 84875173017     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cor.2012.11.022     Document Type: Article

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