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- From: orourke@sophia.smith.edu (Joseph O'Rourke)
- Subject: Re: area optimization algorithm
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.185409.16394@sophia.smith.edu>
- Organization: Smith College, Northampton, MA, US
- References: <1992Nov10.165921.11772@infonode.ingr.com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 18:54:09 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov10.165921.11772@infonode.ingr.com> maverick@topgun.b29.ingr.com writes:
- >I would like to know if anyone can point me to a source of any kind (book,
- >ftp site, etc.) that has an algorithm for area optimization. [...]
- >Basically, the problem is: given 'X' number of rectangles, place them within
- >a given area, with a minimum amount of space left unused in between the
- >rectangles.
-
- The keywords for this topic are "bin packing," and more specificially,
- "two-dimensional bin packing," the "stock cutting problem,"
- and "automatic marker making." It has been studied extensively.
- Most variations of the problem are fundamentally intractable (NP-complete),
- but approximation algorithms are known.
-
- @book{P.S
- , author = "C. H. Papadimitriou and K. Steiglitz"
- , title = "Combinatorial Optimization: Algorithms and Complexity"
- , publisher = "Prentice Hall"
- , address = "Englewood Cliffs, NJ"
- , year = 1982
- }
-