SALT LAKE CITY – During his senior year of college, Timberwolves forward Nathan Knight developed an algorithm that can help people pack for trips. "We all know the hardest part of starting that ...

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 ...

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 ...

In this paper, a rectangular layer-packing algorithm (RLPA) combined with modified genetic algorithm (GA) or particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm is developed to solve the problem with emerging ...