Title
Space defragmentation heuristic for 2D and 3D bin packing problems
Abstract
One of main difficulties of multi-dimensional packing problems is the fragmentation of free space into several unusable small parts after a few items are packed. This study proposes a defragmentation technique to combine the fragmented space into a continuous usable space, which potentially allows the packing of additional items. We illustrate the effectiveness of this technique on the two-and three-dimensional Bin Packing Problems. In conjunction with a bin shuffling strategy for incremental improvement, our resultant algorithm outperforms all leading meta-heuristic approaches.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.5591/978-1-57735-516-8/IJCAI11-123
IJCAI
Keywords
Field
DocType
defragmentation technique,free space,additional item,bin packing problem,fragmented space,main difficulty,space defragmentation heuristic,bin shuffling strategy,multi-dimensional packing problem,leading meta-heuristic approach,continuous usable space,incremental improvement
USable,Mathematical optimization,Heuristic,Bin,Packing problems,Computer science,Defragmentation,Fragmentation (computing),Shuffling,Bin packing problem
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.46
8
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zhaoyi Zhang1110.90
Songshan Guo2466.50
Wenbin Zhu321415.34
Wee-chong Oon411112.72
Andrew Lim593789.78