Balanced Loading

Samir V. Amiouny, John J. Bartholdi, John H. Vande Vate and Jixian Zhang
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Samir V. Amiouny: Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia
John J. Bartholdi: Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia
John H. Vande Vate: Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia
Jixian Zhang: Nanyang Technological Institute, Singapore

Operations Research, 1992, vol. 40, issue 2, 238-246

Abstract: We develop a heuristic for a problem motivated by the loading of aircraft or trucks: pack blocks into a bin so that their center-of-gravity is as close as possible to a target point. Our heuristic either produces good solutions or else signals that none is possible. It also works when loading nonhomogeneous blocks into a bin of nonzero and possibly nonhomogeneous mass.

Keywords: analysis of algorithms; suboptimal algorithms: balancing cargo; combinatorial mechanics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1992
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