Research Article

Hybridizing Beam Search with Tabu Search for the Irregular Packing Problem

Table 3

BSTS algorithm results compared with the average results of SAHA.

ProblemAverage results of SAHAAverage results of BSTS
LengthAvg. (%)Time (s)BW/FWLengthAvg. (%)Time (s)

Fu32.7087.15296100/1232.9986.38282
Jakobs112.9375.80332100/2011.9881.87639
Jakobs225.8674.62454100/2025.8474.66777
Shapes063.1563.18391410/466.1160.38363
Shapes158.1768.591031410/460.1465.26557
Shapes226.5381.412257100/728.4875.82401
Dighe112281.978310/5125.6679.48185
Dighe2119.5383.662210/5121.1282.5692
Albano10280.184.682257100/810443.183.37926
Dagli59.4185.365110100/1062.3780.93413
Mao1842.7079.998245100/91839.480.12759
Marques79.6386.877507100/879.9486.40591
Swim6121.3972.276937100/106369.169.46855
Trousers244.6889.018588100/10252.0786.41641

Compared with the average results of SAHA, the better results obtained by the hybrid algorithm BSTS are highlighted by bold. Less than 1% worse results are italicized, and this also shows that the BSTS algorithm can produce some comparable results. The bold and italicized values can display the advantage of the BSTS algorithm more clearly.