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A Heuristic for the Two-Dimensional Irregular Bin Packing Problem with Limited Rotations

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In this paper, we propose a heuristic for the two-dimensional irregular bin packing problems (2DIRBPP) with limited rotations. To solve the 2DIRBPP, we use the First Fit Decreasing (FFD) strategy to assign the pieces to the bins, then use the Bottom-Left algorithm and the pieces exchange method to place pieces into each bin, and finally perform a local search to improve the solution. The results show that our approach is competitive with all existing approaches on several sets of standard benchmark.

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Liu, Q., Zeng, J., Zhang, H., Wei, L. (2020). A Heuristic for the Two-Dimensional Irregular Bin Packing Problem with Limited Rotations. In: Fujita, H., Fournier-Viger, P., Ali, M., Sasaki, J. (eds) Trends in Artificial Intelligence Theory and Applications. Artificial Intelligence Practices. IEA/AIE 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12144. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55789-8_24

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