Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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481823 | European Journal of Operational Research | 2007 | 8 Pages |
Abstract
We study the problem of cutting a number of pieces of the same length from n rolls of different lengths so that the remaining part of each utilized roll is either sufficiently short or sufficiently long. A piece is ‘sufficiently short’, if it is shorter than a pre-specified threshold value δmin, so that it can be thrown away as it cannot be used again for cutting future orders. And a piece is ‘sufficiently long’, if it is longer than a pre-specified threshold value δmax (with δmax > δmin), so that it can reasonably be expected to be usable for cutting future orders of almost any length. We show that this problem, faced by a curtaining wholesaler, is solvable in O(nlogn) time by analyzing a non-trivial class of allocation problems.
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Authors
Arianna Alfieri, Steef van de Velde, Gerhard J. Woeginger,