Research Article

Hybridizing Beam Search with Tabu Search for the Irregular Packing Problem

Table 1

Details of the benchmark problems.

Problem instanceNumber of piece typesTotal number of piecesRotational constraintsSheet width

Fu121290 incremental38
Jakobs1252590 incremental40
Jakobs2252590 incremental70
Shapes04430 absolute40
Shapes14430, 180 absolute40
Shapes27280, 180 absolute15
Dighe116160 absolute100
Dighe210100 absolute100
Albano8240, 180 absolute4900
Dagli10300, 180 absolute60
Mao92090 incremental2550
Marques82490 incremental104
Swim10480, 180 absolute5752
Trousers17640, 180 absolute79