| Article ID: | iaor19991956 |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Volume: | 4 |
| Issue: | 5/6 |
| Start Page Number: | 401 |
| End Page Number: | 418 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 1997 |
| Journal: | International Transactions in Operational Research |
| Authors: | Gehring H., Bortfeldt A. |
| Keywords: | packing, genetic algorithms |
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.