Using simulation to assess the effectiveness of pallet stacking methods

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6472 LNAI, Issue , 2010, Pages 336-349

  Balakirsky, Stephen ^a   Proctor, Fred ^a   Kramer, Tom ^a   Kolhe, Pushkar ^b   Christensen, Henrik I ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Competition; Palletizing; Performance Metrics; Simulation; USARSim

Indexed keywords

CUTTING STOCK PROBLEM; KNAPSACK PROBLEMS; NP-HARD; PALLETIZING; PERFORMANCE METRICS; SIMULATION; STACKING METHOD; USARSIM;

COMPETITION; CUTTING; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; ROBOT PROGRAMMING; ROBOTS; COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION; SHIPS;

PALLETS;

EID: 78650289549     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-17319-6_32     Document Type: Conference Paper

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