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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780387456737 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
516.11 |
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SZA |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Szabo, P. G. |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
New approaches to circle packing in a square : with program codes |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
Boston |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Springer |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
2007 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xiv, 238 p. |
| Other physical details |
ill. |
| Dimensions |
24 cm. |
| Accompanying material |
1 CD-ROM |
| Size of unit |
4 3/4 in. |
| 365 ## - TRADE PRICE |
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| Price amount |
109.99 |
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EUR |
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82.00 |
| 490 ## - SERIES STATEMENT |
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| Series statement |
Springer optimization and its applications |
| Volume number/sequential designation |
v. 6 |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc |
Includes bibliography and index.
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| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
In one sense, the problem of finding the densest packing of congruent circles in a square is easy to understand: it is a matter of positioning a given number of equal circles in such a way that the circles fit fully in a square without overlapping. But on closer inspection, this problem reveals itself to be an interesting challenge of discrete and computational geometry with all its surprising structural forms and regularities. As the number of circles to be packed increases, solving a circle packing problem rapidly becomes rather difficult. To give an example of the difficulty of some problems, consider that in several cases there even exists a circle in an optimal packing that can be moved slightly while retaining the optimality. Such free circles (or "rattles") mean that there exist not only a continuum of optimal solutions, but the measure of the set of optimal solutions is positive! This book summarizes results achieved in solving the circle packing problem over the past few years, providing the reader with a comprehensive view of both theoretical and computational achievements. Typically illustrations of problem solutions are shown, elegantly displaying the results obtained. Beyond the theoretically challenging character of the problem, the solution methods developed in the book also have many practical applications. Direct applications include cutting out congruent two-dimensional objects from an expensive material, or locating points within a square in such a way that the shortest distance between them is maximal. Circle packing problems are closely related to the "obnoxious facility location" problems, to the Tammes problem, and less closely related to the Kissing Number Problem. The emerging computational algorithms can also be helpful in other hard-to-solve optimization problems like molecule conformation. The wider scientific community has already been involved in checking the codes and has helped in having the computational proofs accepted. Since the codes can be worked with directly, they will enable the reader to improve on them and solve problem instances that still remain challenging, or to use them as a starting point for solving related application problems. AudienceThis book will appeal to those interested in discrete geometrical problems and their efficient solution techniques. Operations research and optimization experts will also find it worth reading as a case study of how the utilization of the problem structure and specialities made it possible to find verified solutions of previously hopeless high-dimensional nonlinear optimization problems with nonlinear constraints. |
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Mathematical Optimization |
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Convex and Discrete Geometry |
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Arithmetic and Logic Structures |
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Math Applications in Computer Science |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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Markot, M. Cs. |
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Csendes, T. |
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Specht, E. |
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Casado, L. G. |
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Garcia, I. |
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