A Hybrid Simulated Annealing/Linear Programming Approach for the Cover Printing Problem

The NP-hard cover printing problem addressed here consists in determining the number and composition of equal size impression grids, as well as the number of times each grid is printed, in order to fulfill the demand of different book covers at minimum total printing cost. The considered costs come...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Federico Alonso-Pecina, David Romero
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2018-01-01
Series:Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/6193649