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Natural Sciences, Manufacturing Engineering, Operations Management +11

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Minimizing the object dimensions in circle and sphere packing problems

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Natural Sciences, Computer Science, Mathematics +14

Variable space search for graph coloring

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Natural Sciences, Computational Engineering, Optimization +11

A heuristic for the circle packing problem with a variety of containers

C.O. López, J. E. Beasley · European Journal of Operational Research · 2011 · 99 citations

Natural Sciences, Mathematics, Operations Management +5