A Near-Optimal Solution to a Two-Dimensional Cutting Stock Problem

  • Authors:
  • Claire Kenyon;Eric Rémila

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • Mathematics of Operations Research
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

We present an asymptotic fully polynomial approximation scheme for strip-packing, or packing rectangles into a rectangle of fixed width and minimum height, a classicalNP-hard cutting-stock problem. The algorithm, based on a new linear-programming relaxation, finds a packing ofn rectangles whose total height is within a factor of (1 +e) of optimal (up to an additive term), and has running time polynomial both in n and in 1/ e.