Given a set of rectangles with fixed orientations, we want to find an enclosing rectangle of minimum area that contains them all with no overlap. Many simple scheduling tasks ca...
IAT Services, the central Information Technology group at the University of Missouri-Columbia, operates computing sites in general access, classroom, and residence hall settings. ...
This study investigates an optimization-based heuristic for the Robotic Cell Problem. This problem arises in automated cells and is a complex ow shop problem with a single transpo...
Jacques Carlier, Mohamed Haouari, Mohamed Kharbech...
An optimization problem that naturally arises in the study of swarm robotics is the Freeze-Tag Problem (FTP) of how to awaken a set of "asleep" robots, by having an awak...