He, Kun; Ji, Pengli; Li, Chumin - In: European Journal of Operational Research 241 (2015) 3, pp. 674-685
The rectangle packing area minimization problem is a key sub-problem of floorplanning in VLSI design. This problem … transforms an instance of the original problem to a series of instances of the rectangle packing problem by dynamically … candidate placements, and we propose a least injury first approach for solving the rectangle packing problem. Next, we …