Johari, RameshMarks, JoePartovi, AliShieber, Stuart2008-08-251997Ramesh Johari, Joe Marks, Ali Partovi, and Stuart M. Shieber. Automatic yellow-pages pagination and layout. Journal of Heuristics, 2(4):321-342, 1997. The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com.1572-93971381-1231http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:2031713The compact and harmonious layout of ads and text is a fundamental and costly step in the production of commercial telephone directories (ldquoYellow Pagesrdquo). We formulate a canonical version of Yellow-Pages pagination and layout (YPPL) as an optimization problem in which the task is to position ads and text-stream segments on sequential pages so as to minimize total page length and maximize certain layout aesthetics, subject to constraints derived from page-format requirements and positional relations between ads and text. We present a heuristic-search approach to the YPPL problem. Our algorithm has been applied to a sample of real telephone-directory data, and produces solutions that are significantly shorter and better than the published ones.en-US10.1007/BF00132503