A hybrid GRASP/VND algorithm for two- and three-dimensional bin packing

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2010

Authors

Parreno, F (Author) Other; Alvarez Valdes, R (Author) Other; Oliveira, JF (Author) FEUP; Tamarit, JM (Author) Other

Journal

Title: Annals of Operations Research

Vol. 179 No. 1

Pages: 203-220

ISSN: 0254-5330

Publisher: Springer Nature

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Scientific classification

FOS: Engineering and technology > Industrial biotechnology

CORDIS: Physical sciences > Mathematics > Applied mathematics > Operations research

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-003-33K

DOI: 10.1007/s10479-008-0449-4

Abstract (EN): The three-dimensional bin packing problem consists of packing a set of boxes into the minimum number of bins. In this paper we propose a new GRASP algorithm for solving three-dimensional bin packing problems which can also be directly applied to the two-dimensional case. The constructive phase is based on a maximal-space heuristic developed for the container loading problem. In the improvement phase, several new moves are designed and combined in a VND structure. The resulting hybrid GRASP/VND algorithm is simple and quite fast and the extensive computational results on test instances from the literature show that the quality of the solutions is equal to or better than that obtained by the best existing heuristic procedures.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 18