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- From: zkdc05@trc.amoco.com (Kelly D. Crawford)
- Newsgroups: sci.math.num-analysis
- Subject: Re: Maximize Volume of Boxes in Shipping Container
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.095958@trc.amoco.com>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 14:59:58 GMT
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- > BTW, I was trying to apply genetic algorithms to this problem but lacked a
- > good mutation and cross-over technique to prevent boxs (or squares in the 2D
- > case) from falling outside the boundaries. Without this you end up wasting
- > most of the time on impossible combinations (unless you don't mind boxes
- > slopping over the side of the truck :-)
-
- You might try the following paper:
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- Smith, Derek. "Bin Packing with Adaptive Search", First International Conference
- on Genetic Algorithms and their Applications, John J. Grefenstette, editor,
- Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, New Jersey, 1985.
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- The proceedings is still available from Lawrence Erlbaum.
-
- Kelly
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