Given a set P = {P0, . . . , Pk−1} of k convex polygons having n vertices in total in the plane, we consider the problem of finding k translations τ0, . . . , τk−1 of P0, . . . , Pk−1 such that the translated copies τiPi are pairwise disjoint and the area or the perimeter of the convex hull of ⋃k−1 i=0 τiPi is minimized. When k = 2, the problem can be solved in linear time but no previous work ...