Goal programming is a technique often used in engineering design activities primarily to find a compromised solution which will simultaneously satisfy a number of design goals. In solving goal ...

We present a tree-search algorithm for two-dimensional cutting problems in which there is a constraint on the maximum number of each type of piece that is to be produced. The algorithm limits the size ...

Prime numbers are all the rage these days. I can tell something’s up when random people start asking me about the randomness of primes—without even knowing that I’m a mathematician! In the past couple ...