Download or read book Introduction to Cutting and Packing Optimization written by Guntram Scheithauer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-20 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive overview of the most important and frequently considered optimization problems concerning cutting and packing. Based on appropriate modeling approaches for the problems considered, it offers an introduction to the related solution methods. It also addresses aspects like performance results for heuristic algorithms and bounds of the optimal value, as well as the packability of a given set of objects within a predefined container. The problems discussed arise in a wide variety of different fields of application and research, and as such, the fundamental knowledge presented in this book make it a valuable resource for students, practitioners, and researchers who are interested in dealing with such tasks.