Optimization Based Heuristic Approaches for Solving an Integrated One-dimensional Cutting Stock-Transportation Problem
Abstract
In this work, the integration of the one-dimensional cutting stock problem with multiple cutting facilities and the transportation problem was formulated mathematically as a large-scale discrete optimization problem. Benders partitioning approach and the column-generation technique with the direct method and the proposed heuristic method for solving corresponding integer programming (IP) were developed into three approaches and were used to solve a set of various sizes test problems within a controllable computation time. The computation time and the relative-difference percentage between the lower and upper bounds are criterions. The results indicated that the approach based on the column-generation technique with the proposed heuristic method is the most efficient method for solving this studied large-scale problems. Hence, this approach could be used in practical manners; to manage both production and transportation plans simultaneously.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3844/jmssp.2007.142.150
Copyright: © 2007 Sirirat Wongprakornkul and Peerayuth Charnsethikul. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Keywords
- Large-scale linear programming
- column-generation technique
- one-dimensional cutting stock problem
- transportation problem
- Benders decomposition