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Exact Methods for Recursive Circle Packing

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  • Packing rings into a minimum number of rectangles is an optimization problem which appears naturally in the logistics operations of the tube industry. It encompasses two major difficulties, namely the positioning of rings in rectangles and the recursive packing of rings into other rings. This problem is known as the Recursive Circle Packing Problem (RCPP). We present the first dedicated method for solving RCPP that provides strong dual bounds based on an exact Dantzig–Wolfe reformulation of a nonconvex mixed-integer nonlinear programming formulation. The key idea of this reformulation is to break symmetry on each recursion level by enumerating one-level packings, i.e., packings of circles into other circles, and by dynamically generating packings of circles into rectangles. We use column generation techniques to design a “price-and-verify” algorithm that solves this reformulation to global optimality. Extensive computational experiments on a large test set show that our method not only computes tight dual bounds, but often produces primal solutions better than those computed by heuristics from the literature.

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Author:Ambros GleixnerORCiD, Stephen J. Maher, Benjamin MüllerORCiD, João Pedro PedrosoORCiD
Document Type:ZIB-Report
Date of first Publication:2017/02/24
Series (Serial Number):ZIB-Report (17-07)
Published in:Annals of Operations Research, S.I.: Decomposition Methods for Hard Optimization Problems, December 2018, Published as "Price-and-verify: a new algorithm for recursive circle packing using Dantzig--Wolfe decomposition"
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-018-3115-5
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