Showing papers by "Thomas L. Saaty published in 1975"
TL;DR: Packing and covering as discussed by the authors is a generalization of the geometry of numbers and has a number of useful applications gradually arising out of the geometrical geometry of the number space.
Abstract: There are a number of useful applications gradually arising out of the geometry of numbers. In this paper we give a brief survey of the fields of packing and covering, stating some results, and giving illustrations of methods of proof and approaches to the subject. We then mention and discuss a variety of applications, summarizing results and occasionally providing proofs. Our hope is to focus attention on optimization problems not in the main stream of current optimization theories.
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