The nofit polygon is a powerful and effective tool for handling the geometric requirements of solution approaches to irregular cutting and packing problems. Although the concept was first described in 1996, it was not until the early 90s that the general trend of research moved away from direct...

The multiple container loading cost minimization problem (MCLCMP) is a practical and useful problem in the transportation industry, where products of various dimensions are to be loaded into containers of various sizes so as to minimize the total shipping cost. The MCLCMP can be naturally...