An Efficient Heuristic Approach for Irregular Cutting Stock Problem in Ship Building Industry

This paper presents an efficient approach for solving a real two-dimensional irregular cutting stock problem in ship building industry. Cutting stock problem is a common cutting and packing problem that arises in a variety of industrial applications. A modification of selection heuristic Exact Fit i...

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Main Author: Yan-xin Xu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2016-01-01
Series:Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/8703782