Host: Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory and Intelligent Informatics (SOFT)
Stock Layout problem exists in many industry fields, which is one of the mathematical problems of NP-Complete. In practice, the problem is solved under the various technological requirements for production process such as guillotine cutting, cutting line width, texture direction, and stock selection from enough etc. The purposes of this paper are to propose (i) flexible coding method of the problem, which enable us to solve the problem under the requirements, and (ii) a fish swarm optimization method. Appling the proposed method to practical projects and comparing with other algorithms shows its validity.
