Re: Is there a name and theory for "arrangement/packing" problems?

Chris F Clark wrote:

Yesterday, I needed to arrange a set of reviewers to look at
proposals. I'll give the details below. However, it occured to me
that this kind of discrete arrangement/packing might be well studied
and even have a name and branch of mathematics devoted to its study,
like Diophantine equations are a part of Number Theory that captures
systems of algerbraic equations with integral solutions. If there is
such a name for these problems and some relevant theory I can start to
read, I'd appreciate a pointer.

A "combinatorics" problem - though I don't know if that will help -
it seems a bit like saying it's an "optimisation" problem.
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