A new approach for sheet nesting problem using guided cuckoo search and pairwise clustering

Ahmed Elkeran

European Journal of Operational Research, 2013, vol. 231, issue 3, 757-769

Abstract: The nesting problem is commonly encountered in sheet metal, clothing and shoe-making industries. The nesting problem is a combinatorial optimization problem in which a given set of irregular polygons is required to be placed on a rectangular sheet. The objective is to minimize the length of the sheet while having all polygons inside the sheet without overlap. In this study, a methodology that hybridizes cuckoo search and guided local search optimization techniques is proposed.

Keywords: Cutting; Nesting; No-fit polygon; Clustering; Cuckoo search; Guided local search (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2013.06.020

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