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Effectively handling three-dimensional spaces for container loading

  • Jiamin Liu
    ,
  • Xiaorui Zhang
    ,
  • Yong Yue
    ,
  • Carsten Maple
  • Shenyang University of Technology
Research Output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Conference contribution Peer-review

Abstract

To improve space utilization, the method for handling spaces plays an important role in the container loading problem. This paper deals with loading a set of cuboid items into a single container to maximize the utilization of the space. Six space partitions are presented and a set of rules for merging spaces is proposed. Through experimentation, using a benchmark data set, the influence of partitioning and merging are analyzed. The experimental results show that partitioning and merging in which all loaded boxes have one hundred percent support from below can produce good space utilization.

Publication Information

Output type

Research Output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Conference contribution Peer-review

Original language

English

Publication milestones

  • Published - 01/01/2012

Publication status

Published - 01/01/2012

Publisher

American Institute of Physics, United States

ISBN (Print)

9780735410916

ISBN (Electronic)

9780735410916

External Publication IDs

  • handle.net: 10547/272954
  • Scopus: 84883093357

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