In additive manufacturing (also known as 3D printing), a layer-by-layer buildup process is
used for manufacturing parts. Modern laser 3D printers can work with various materials …

Sparsest packing for irregular 3D objects is introduced. This problem is motivated by the
thermal deburring–modern clean and energy saving technology of removing burrs from …

Packing optimization problems have a wide spectrum of real-word applications, including
transportation, logistics, chemical/civil/mechanical/power/aerospace engineering …

This paper presents an effective perturbation-based thresholding search for two popular and
challenging packing problems with minimal containers: packing N identical circles in a …

We study the problem of optimizing a function under a\emph {budgeted number of
evaluations}. We only assume that the function is\emph {locally} smooth around one of its …

Packing irregular 3D objects in a cuboid of minimum volume is considered. Each object is
composed of a number of convex shapes, such as oblique and right circular cylinders, cones …

We review and present several challenging model classes arising in the context of finding
optimized object packings (OP). Except for the smallest and/or simplest general OP model …

We present a model development framework and numerical solution approach to the
general problem-class of packing convex objects into optimized convex containers …

We present model development and numerical solution approaches to the problem of
packing a general set of ellipses without overlaps into an optimized polygon. Specifically, for …

Nonlinear optimization (NLO) encompasses a vast range of problems, from very simple to
theoretically intractable instances. For this reason, it is impossible to offer guaranteed …