Article ID: | iaor2002252 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 40 |
Issue: | 3 |
Start Page Number: | 201 |
End Page Number: | 214 |
Publication Date: | Jul 2001 |
Journal: | Computers & Industrial Engineering |
Authors: | Troutt Marvin D., Leung T.W., Yung C.H. |
Keywords: | optimization: simulated annealing |
We applied a genetic algorithm and a simulated annealing approach to the two-dimensional non-guillotine cutting stock problem and carried out experimentation on several test cases. The performance and efficiency of these two heuristic algorithms on this problem were compared.