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Metaheuristic Algorithms for Container Loading Problems: Framework and Knowledge Utilization

Sadaaki Miyamoto^, Yasunori Endo^, Koki Hanzawa^, and Yukihiro Hamasuna^

^*Department of Risk Engineering, Faculty of Systems and Information Engineering, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8573, Japan
^**Master's Program in Risk Engineering, Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8573, Japan

Received: October 31, 2005

Accepted: March 31, 2006

Keywords: container loading, metaheuristic optimization, knowledge system

Journal ref: Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics, Vol.11, No.1 pp. 51-60, 2007

Abstract

A family of automatic container loading problems is studied and algorithms are proposed. The algorithms are constructed with metaheuristics and include flat and/or vertical loading schemes, loading efficiency, stability of loaded objects, and computational requirement. Commonsense and expert knowledge incorporation is considered to combine with metaheuristics. Handling groups of objects in a metaheuristic scheme is moreover considered. Numerical examples are given.

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