Abstract Balanced sampling is a random method for sample selection, the use of which preferable when auxiliary information available all units population. However, implementing balanced can be challenging task, and this due in part to computational efforts required necessity respect balancing constraints inclusion probabilities. In present paper, new algorithm selecting samples proposed. This i...

This article presents the use of the Simulated Annealing algorithm with a heuristic to solve the waste minimization problem in roll cutting programming, in this case, paper. Client orders, which vary in weight, width, and external and internal diameter, are fully satisfied. Several tests were performed with real data from a paper company in which an average of 30% waste reduction and 100% reduc...