Bin packing problems are a class of NP-hard combinatorial optimisation challenges with wide-ranging applications in logistics, manufacturing, cloud computing and scheduling. The fundamental task is to ...

Operations Research, Vol. 26, No. 5, Operations Research/Computer Science Interface (Sep. - Oct., 1978), pp. 760-772 (13 pages) We consider the bin-packing problem with the constraint that the ...

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The Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol. 69, No. 3 (MARCH 2018), pp. 402-415 (14 pages) This paper presents a heuristic for the guillotine two-dimensional bin packing problem, where a set ...

Researchers from Mentor Graphics Corp. are proposing a more complete way to test multiple cores on a system-on-chip. At the International Test Conference, Mentor presented a paper that defines SoC ...

Form Labs recently announced the launch of the Fuse 1, a desktop SLS printer that will print all your parts using nylon powder and a laser. This a fundamentally different method of 3D printing as ...