A new heuristic recursive algorithm for the strip rectangular packing problem

  • Authors:
  • Defu Zhang;Yan Kang;Ansheng Deng

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Xiamen University, China;School of Software, Yunnan University, Kunming, China;Department of Computer Science, Xiamen University, China

  • Venue:
  • Computers and Operations Research
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

A fast and new heuristic recursive algorithm to find a minimum height for two-dimensional strip rectangular packing problem is presented. This algorithm is mainly based on heuristic strategies and a recursive structure, and its average running time is T(n) = θ(n3). The computational results on a class of benchmark problems have shown that this algorithm not only finds shorter height than the known meta-heuristic ones, but also runs in shorter time. Especially for large test problems, it performs better.