Castillo, Ignacio; Kampas, Frank J.; Pintér, János D. - In: European Journal of Operational Research 191 (2008) 3, pp. 786-802
A (general) circle packing is an optimized arrangement of N arbitrary sized circles inside a container (e.g., a rectangle or a circle) such that no two circles overlap. In this paper, we present several circle packing problems, review their industrial applications, and some exact and heuristic...