• Title of article

    Packing Unit Spheres into a Cube Using VNS

  • Author/Authors

    MʹHallah، نويسنده , , Rym and Alkandari، نويسنده , , Abdulaziz، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2012
  • Pages
    8
  • From page
    201
  • To page
    208
  • Abstract
    This paper applies a variable neighborhood search (VNS) to the difficult problem of packing unit radii spheres into the smallest cube (PSC). VNS identifies (near-) global optima by searching the neighborhoods of local minima. It obtains neighboring solutions by shaking one or more spheres. It alters the size of a neighborhood every time it fails to find an improving solution. VNS matches 42 out of 55 upper bounds.
  • Keywords
    variable neighborhood search , Three dimensional packing , Non-linear programming , Packing spheres in a cube
  • Journal title
    Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics
  • Serial Year
    2012
  • Journal title
    Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics
  • Record number

    1456011