Title of article
A novelhybridtabusearchapproachtocontainerloading
Author/Authors
Jiamin Liu ، نويسنده , , YongYue، نويسنده , , ZongranDong c، نويسنده , , CarstenMaple، نويسنده , , MalcolmKeech ، نويسنده ,
Issue Information
ماهنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2011
Pages
11
From page
797
To page
807
Abstract
The containerloadingproblem,whichissignificantforanumberofindustrialsectors,aimstoobtaina
high spaceutilisationinthecontainerwhilesatisfyingpracticalconstraints.Thispaperpresentsanovel
hybridtabusearchapproachtothecontainerloadingproblem.Aloadingheuristicisdevisedto
incorporateheuristicstrategieswithahandlingmethodforremainingspacestogenerateoptimal
loadingarrangementsofboxeswithstabilityconsidered.Thetabusearchtechnique,whichcoversthe
encoding,evaluationcriteriaandconfigurationofneighbourhoodandcandidatesolutions,isusedto
improvetheperformanceoftheloadingheuristic.Experimentalresultswithbenchmarkdatashowthat
the hybridapproachprovidesabetterspaceutilisationthanthepublishedapproachesunderthe
conditionofallloadedboxeswithonehundredpercentsupportfrombelow.Moreover,itisshownthat
the hybridtabusearchcansolveproblemswiththeconstraintsofweightlimitandweightdistribution
with realworlddata.
Keywords
Dynamic supply portfolio , Mixed integer programming , Conditional value-at-risk , Scenarios , Supply chain risk management
Journal title
Computers and Operations Research
Serial Year
2011
Journal title
Computers and Operations Research
Record number
927902
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