While you might think its lack of limbs might limit how it gets around, snakes have actually developed several different forms of locomotion. One of these is "rectilinear locomotion," and while most ...

Abstract: As evidenced by the Global Exploration Roadmap, international interest exists in a new era of human exploration of the solar system. From among several different efforts, NASA is currently ...

This paper is concerned with the problem of locating n new facilities in the plane when there are m facilities already located. The objective is to minimize the weighted sum of rectilinear distances.

The problem of locating a single new facility in the plane relative to several existing facilities is treated. Simultaneous consideration is given to minisum and minimax criteria. Rectilinear ...