With the growth of residential rooftop PV adoption in recent decades, the problem of effective
layout design has become increasingly important in recent years. Although a number of …

The bin packing problem is a well-studied problem in combinatorial optimization. In the
classical bin packing problem, we are given a list of real numbers in (0, 1] and the goal is to …

The components of shipyard production systems can be classified into products, processes,
facilities, space, humans, and schedules. The production capacity of a shipyard may vary …

The bin packing problem has been the corner stone of approximation algorithms and has
been extensively studied starting from the early seventies. In the classical bin packing …

A Personal Robot should be able to handle unknown objects in unknown environments. For
a manipulation task the question what to do with an object once it had been grasped is one …

Deterministic algorithms such as A* and D* have been applied with great success to
autonomous robotic path planning. However, as search space size increases numerous …

Packing problems arise in a wide variety of application areas. The basic problem is that of
determining an efficient arrangement of different objects in a region without any overlap and …

A Personal Robot should be able to handle possible unknown objects in unknown
environments. For a manipulation task the question what to do with an object once it had …

In the United States, approximately 65× 10 9 square-feet of underutilized rooftop space
could be appropriated for the installation of solar photovoltaic systems. Although several …

Nowadays there is a demand in the efficient use of territory. This dissertation discusses main
issues connected to the problem of area planning. There are several techniques used for …