• Title of article

    Arc-flow modelforthetwo-dimensionalguillotinecuttingstockproblem

  • Author/Authors

    Rita Macedo، نويسنده , , Cl?udioAlves، نويسنده , , J.M.ValériodeCarvalho، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    ماهنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2010
  • Pages
    11
  • From page
    991
  • To page
    1001
  • Abstract
    We describeanexactmodelforthetwo-dimensionalcuttingstockproblemwithtwostagesandthe guillotine constraint.Itisanintegerlinearprogramming(ILP)arc-flowmodel,formulatedasaminimum flow problem,whichisanextensionofamodelproposedbyValériodeCarvalhofortheonedimensional case. Inthispaper,weexplorethebehaviorofthismodelwhenitissolvedwithacommercialsoftware, explicitly consideringallitsvariablesandconstraints.Wealsoderiveanewfamilyofcuttingplanesand a newlowerbound,andconsidersomevariantsoftheoriginalproblem.Themodelwastestedonasetof real instancesfromthewoodindustry,withverygoodresults.Furthermorethelowerboundsprovided by thelinearprogrammingrelaxationofthemodelcomparefavorablywiththelowerboundsprovided by modelsbasedonassignmentvariables.
  • Keywords
    Integer programming , Guillotine constraints , Two-dimensional cutting stock problem , Combinatorial optimization , furniture industry
  • Journal title
    Computers and Operations Research
  • Serial Year
    2010
  • Journal title
    Computers and Operations Research
  • Record number

    927708