A morph-based simulated annealing heuristic for a modified bin-packing problem

Journal of the Operational Research Society

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 433-439

  Brusco, M J ^a   Thompson, G M ^b   Jacobs, L W ^c  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

^c NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Annealing; Bin packing; Heuristics; Simulated

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; HEURISTIC METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROCESS CONTROL; RANDOM PROCESSES; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SCHEDULING; SIMULATED ANNEALING;

MEAN PERCENT ABOVE THE BEST KNOWN OBJECTIVE VALUE (MPABKOV); MODIFIED BIN PACKING PROBLEM (MBPP);

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

EID: 0031121388     PISSN: 01605682     EISSN: 14769360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.jors.2600356     Document Type: Article

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