| Article ID: | iaor200952625 |
| Country: | United States |
| Volume: | 20 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Start Page Number: | 412 |
| End Page Number: | 422 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2008 |
| Journal: | INFORMS Journal On Computing |
| Authors: | AlvarezValdes R, Parreo F, Tamarit J M, Oliveira J F |
| Keywords: | containers, packing |
In this paper, a greedy randomized adaptive search procedure (GRASP) for the container loading problem is presented. This approach is based on a constructive block heuristic that builds upon the concept of maximal space, a nondisjoint representation of the free space in a container.