An efficient hyperheuristic for strip-packing problems

Studies in Computational Intelligence

Volumn 136, Issue , 2008, Pages 61-76

  Araya, Ignacio ^a   Neveu, Bertrand ^a   Riff, María Cristina ^b  

^a INRIA   (France)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Chile)

Author keywords

Hill climbing; Hyperheuristic; Low level heuristic; Strip packing problems

Indexed keywords

EID: 45949092127     PISSN: 1860949X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-79438-7_3     Document Type: Article

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