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.