Developing an Industrial-Grade Heuristic Problem-Solving Procedure

Robert W. Haessler
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Robert W. Haessler: Graduate School of Business Administration, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109

Interfaces, 1983, vol. 13, issue 3, 62-71

Abstract: An approach for developing heuristic problem-solving procedures for solving the types of operational problems with significant combinatorial components that commonly occur in production and distribution systems is demonstrated with a variation of the well-known one-dimensional cutting stock problem. The primary elements of the approach are identifying important solution characteristics, developing a sequential solution procedure, selecting the program control parameters, and developing a multiple-pass feature to obtain improved solutions.

Keywords: production/scheduling: cutting stock; programming: integer algorithms; heuristic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1983
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