A beam search approach to solve the convex irregular bin packing problem with guillotine cuts

Bennell, Julia, Cabo Nodar, Marta and Martinez Sykora, Antonio (2018) A beam search approach to solve the convex irregular bin packing problem with guillotine cuts. European Journal of Operational Research, 270 (1), 89-102. (doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2018.03.029).

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Abstract

This paper presents a two dimensional convex irregular bin packing problem
with guillotine cuts. The problem combines the challenges of tackling the complexity of packing irregular pieces, guaranteeing guillotine cuts that are not always orthogonal to the edges of the bin, and allocating pieces to bins that are not necessarily of the same size. This problem is known as a two-dimensional multi bin size bin packing problem with convex irregular pieces and guillotine cuts. Since pieces are separated by means of guillotine cuts, our study is restricted to convex pieces. A beam search algorithm is described, which is successfully applied to both the multi and single bin size instances. The algorithm is competitive with the results reported in the literature for the single bin size problem and provides the first results for the multi bin size problem.

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