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Main Authors: Gardeyn, Jeroen, Wauters, Tony
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19306
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author Gardeyn, Jeroen
Wauters, Tony
author_facet Gardeyn, Jeroen
Wauters, Tony
contents This paper addresses the two-dimensional bin packing problem with guillotine constraints. The problem requires a set of rectangular items to be cut from larger rectangles, known as bins, while only making use of edge-to-edge (guillotine) cuts. The goal is to minimize the total bin area needed to cut all required items. This paper also addresses variants of the problem which permit 90° rotation of items and/or a heterogeneous set of bins. A novel heuristic is introduced which is based on the ruin and recreate paradigm combined with a goal-driven approach. When applying the proposed heuristic to benchmark instances from the literature, it outperforms the current state-of-the-art algorithms in terms of solution quality for all variants of the problem considered.
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spellingShingle A goal-driven ruin and recreate heuristic for the 2D variable-sized bin packing problem with guillotine constraints
Gardeyn, Jeroen
Wauters, Tony
Computational Geometry
This paper addresses the two-dimensional bin packing problem with guillotine constraints. The problem requires a set of rectangular items to be cut from larger rectangles, known as bins, while only making use of edge-to-edge (guillotine) cuts. The goal is to minimize the total bin area needed to cut all required items. This paper also addresses variants of the problem which permit 90° rotation of items and/or a heterogeneous set of bins. A novel heuristic is introduced which is based on the ruin and recreate paradigm combined with a goal-driven approach. When applying the proposed heuristic to benchmark instances from the literature, it outperforms the current state-of-the-art algorithms in terms of solution quality for all variants of the problem considered.
title A goal-driven ruin and recreate heuristic for the 2D variable-sized bin packing problem with guillotine constraints
topic Computational Geometry
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19306