Abstract
This paper presents an extended local search algorithm (ELS) for the irregular strip packing problem. It adopts two neighborhoods, swapping two given polygons in a placement and placing one polygon into a new position. The local search algorithm is used to minimize the overlap on the basis of the neighborhoods mentioned above and the unconstrained nonlinear programming model is adopted to further minimize the overlap during the search process. Moreover, the tabu search algorithm is used to avoid local minima, and a compact algorithm is presented to improve the result. The results of standard test instances indicate that when compared with other existing algorithms, the presented algorithm does not only show some signs of competitive power but also updates several best known results.
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