The set covering problem asks for the smallest collection of subsets whose union contains all elements in a given universe. As a canonical NP-hard challenge, it has inspired a rich array of exact, ...

Combinatorial optimisation is a fundamental field in applied mathematics and computer science that focuses on finding an optimal object from a finite set of objects. In this context, problems are ...

Dealing with a problem here that probably has a clever solution which is not coming to me: I have an m x n grid. This grid contains some circles. I would like to find a set of squares that covers the ...