The facility layout problem is concerned with finding an arrangement of non-overlapping indivisible departments within a facility so as to minimize the tota...

Facility layout problems are an important class of operations research problems that has been studied for several decades. Most variants of facility layout ...

The unequal-areas facility layout problem is concerned with finding the optimal arrangement of a given number of non-overlapping indivisible departments with...

This paper provides new results on the application of semidefinite optimization to satisfiability by studying the connection between semidefinite optimizatio...

This paper explores new connections between the satisfiability problem and semidefinite programming. We show how the process of resolution in satisfiability...