Loading aircraft for military operations

C Guéret, N Jussien (), O Lhomme, C Pavageau and C Prins
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C Guéret: École des Mines de Nantes
N Jussien: École des Mines de Nantes
O Lhomme: IPogSA
C Pavageau: École des Mines de Nantes
C Prins: Université de Technologie de Troyes

Journal of the Operational Research Society, 2003, vol. 54, issue 5, 458-465

Abstract: Abstract In this paper, we describe an aircraft loading problem submitted by the French military agency (DGA) as part of a more general military airlift planning problem. It can be viewed as a kind of bi-dimensional bin-packing problem, with heterogeneous bins and several additional constraints. We introduce two-phase methods for solving this NP-hard problem. The first phase consists in building good initial solutions, thanks to two fast algorithms: a list-based heuristic and a loading pattern generation method. Both algorithms call a constraint-based subroutine, able to determine quickly if the items already loaded can be reshuffled to accommodate a new object. The second phase improves these preliminary solutions using local search techniques. Results obtained on real data sets are presented.

Keywords: transportation; military; aircraft loading; airlift; bin packing; constraint programming (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
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DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.jors.2601551

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