| Article ID: | iaor19981855 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 84 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Start Page Number: | 506 |
| End Page Number: | 521 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 1995 |
| Journal: | European Journal of Operational Research |
| Authors: | Dowsland Kathryn A., Dowsland William, B. |
| Keywords: | heuristics |
This paper reviews some of the approaches which have been adopted in the solution of problems involving the nesting of irregularly shaped pieces. Such problems arise in a wide variety of application areas and the purpose of this paper is to bring together problems and solution approaches from a number of diverse domains.