Decoupling Geometry from Optimization in 2D Irregular Cutting and Packing Problems: An Open-Source Collision Detection Engine
Published Online:6 Nov 2025https://doi.org/10.1287/ijoc.2024.1025
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- Received:November 14, 2024
- Accepted:September 26, 2025
- Published Online:November 06, 2025
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Jeroen Gardeyn, Greet Vanden Berghe, Tony Wauters (2025) Decoupling Geometry from Optimization in 2D Irregular Cutting and Packing Problems: An Open-Source Collision Detection Engine. INFORMS Journal on Computing 0(0).
https://doi.org/10.1287/ijoc.2024.1025
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The authors wish to explicitly thank Luke Connolly (Connolly Editorial) for his invaluable editorial consultation, Patrick De Causmaecker (KU Leuven) for help with the mathematical notations, and Alessio La Greca (KU Leuven) for meticulously proofreading the final version of the paper. The authors also thank the editors and reviewers, whose efforts have undoubtedly improved the clarity of the paper.
