H. Gehring, Andreas Bortfeldt
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The paper presents a genetic algorithm (GA) for the container loading problem to generate a set of disjunctive box towers and to arrange the box towers on the floor of the container according to a given optimization criterion.
Abstract
The paper presents a genetic algorithm (GA) for the container loading problem. The main ideas of the approach are first to generate a set of disjunctive box towers and second to arrange the box towers on the floor of the container according to a given optimization criterion. The loading problem may include different practical constraints. The performance of the GA is demonstrated by a numerical test comparing the GA and several other procedures for the container loading problem.
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GEHRING, H.; BORTFELDT, Andreas. A genetic algorithm for solving the container loading problem. International Transactions in Operational Research, 1997, 4: 401–418.