Abstract: A technique for generating navigation routes includes obtaining route data indicative of multiple routes between respective starting locations and destinations, previously traversed by a user (702). The technique further includes identifying, using map data, route segments of a first type and at least one other type within the multiple routes, to generate route segment data (704) and determining, using the route data and the route segment data, a quantitative metric to measure a trade-off between a property of route segments of the first type route and a property of route segments of the at least one other type in selection of navigation routes by the user (706). After an indication of a starting location and a destination is received (708), the technique includes generating a navigation route between the starting location and the destination for the user, including applying the quantitative metric to constrain selections of route segments (710).

Abstract: The present invention enables the efficient use of resources in the manufacture of substantially two-dimensional elements through multi-dimensional resource optimization subject to rules and objectives. The invention may be embodied as a computer-based method, a computerized system that performs the method, or a machine readable storage medium containing instructions that when executed cause performance of the method using the computerized system. To fulfill customer orders, product design data, resource data, and rules and objective data are accessed to determine the efficient use of the resources, such as consumption of particular units of raw material and utilization of production stations. For a given set of customer orders, multiple scenarios of production plans are computed and recomputed until an efficient production plan is achieved. The production plan can be generated at a location remote from the manufacturing site, and it can then be sent in an automated fashion to the production stations.

Abstract: The present invention enables the efficient use of resources in the manufacture of substantially two-dimensional elements through multi-dimensional resource optimization subject to rules and objectives. The invention may be embodied as a computer-based method, a computerized system that performs the method, or a machine readable storage medium containing instructions that when executed cause performance of the method using the computerized system. To fulfill customer orders, product design data, resource data, and rules and objective data are accessed to determine the efficient use of the resources, such as consumption of particular units of raw material and utilization of production stations. For a given set of customer orders, multiple scenarios of production plans are computed and recomputed until an efficient production plan is achieved. The production plan can be generated at a location remote from the manufacturing site, and it can then be sent in an automated fashion to the production stations.