This paper discusses the research behind the Mixed Integer Linear Program (MILP) solution to the Position Allocation Problem (PAP). The paper, as the name suggests, is configured to be submitted for the Frontiers journal. It also contains some significant improvements, as well as vital corrections, to its predecessor.
To build the document, it is recommended to have a full \LaTeX implementation. It is also recommended that make is
installed. The user must also have =latexmk= installed. Note that the makefile has checks for dependencies. After the
dependencies have been installed, the PDF can be built by typing make in a terminal. The first time the
project is built it will:
- ensure all dependencies have been installed
- compiles all the figures
- compiles the document
The first build takes a while because of the figures. The only times that the figures need to be recompiled is if the
./img/data/ directory has been updated. The data is generated by running the MILP PAP project.
Because a lot of the figures are build using tikz, a lot of space is taken up with the figure code. All the generated
images are found in the img/ directory. Also for the sake of modularity, reusability (hopefully some of these modules
are used in my thesis), and my own sanity of buffer sizes while editing, the sections have also been broken down in the
sections/ directory. These files are “put together” in main.org.