Song, X; Bennell, J A - In: Journal of the Operational Research Society 65 (2014) 7, pp. 1037-1052
The research addressing two-dimensional (2D) irregular shape packing has largely focused on the strip packing variant of the problem. However, it can be argued that this is a simplification. The materials from which pieces are required to be cut will ultimately have a fixed length either due to...