Constraint-based spatial representation technique for the container packing problem

Integrated Manufacturing Systems

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 23-33

  Chua, C K ^a   Narayanan, V ^b   Loh, J ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTRAINT THEORY; CONTAINERS; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CONSTRAINT BASED SPATIAL REPRESENTATION METHODS;

PACKAGING MATERIALS;

EID: 0031701242     PISSN: 09576061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09576069810196814     Document Type: Article

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