This paper describes the solution of a real-world cutting problem of a German wood panel manufacturer. It gives an insight of the applied modern cutting technology, the resulting constraints of the cutting problem and the "soft" criteria for the user's assessment of the cutting software. Three...

This paper presents a parallel tabu search algorithm for the container loading problem with a single container to be loaded. The emphasis is on the case of a weakly heterogeneous load. The distributed-parallel approach is based on the concept of multi-search threads according to Toulouse et al....