%0 Journal Article %A Stephen C. H. Leung and Defu Zhang %D 2009 %J International Journal of Computer and Information Engineering %B World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology %I Open Science Index 29, 2009 %T A New Heuristic Approach for the Stock- Cutting Problems %U https://publications.waset.org/pdf/14129 %V 29 %X This paper addresses a stock-cutting problem with rotation of items and without the guillotine cutting constraint. In order to solve the large-scale problem effectively and efficiently, we propose a simple but fast heuristic algorithm. It is shown that this heuristic outperforms the latest published algorithms for large-scale problem instances. %P 1341 - 1346