An OPT+1 algorithm for the cutting stock problem with constant number of object lengths

  • Authors:
  • Klaus Jansen;Roberto Solis-Oba

  • Affiliations:
  • Institut für Informatik, Universität zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany;Department of Computer Science, The University of Western Ontario, London, Canada

  • Venue:
  • IPCO'10 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

In the cutting stock problem we are given a set T of object types, where objects of type Ti∈T have integer length pi0. Given a set O of n objects containing ni objects of type Ti, for each i=1, ..., d, the problem is to pack O into the minimum number of bins of capacity β. In this paper we consider the version of the problem in which the number d of different object types is constant and we present an algorithm that computes a solution using at most OPT+1 bins, where OPT is the value of an optimum solution.