Abstract Three-Dimensional Packing Problems (3D-PPs) can be applied to effectively
reduce logistics costs in various areas, such as airline cargo management and warehouse …

Three‐dimensional cutting and packing problems have a range of important applications
and are of particular relevance to the transportation of cargo in the form of container loading …

Artificial bee colony algorithm (ABC), which is inspired by the foraging behavior of honey
bee swarm, is a biological-inspired optimization. It shows more effective than genetic …

In recent years, swarm intelligence has proven its importance for the solution of those
problems that cannot be easily dealt with classical mathematical techniques. The foraging …

Over past few decades, families of algorithms based on the intelligent group behaviors of
social creatures like ants, birds, fishes, and bacteria have been extensively studied and …

Efficient container loading has the potential to considerably reduce logistics and
transportation costs. The container loading problem is computationally complex and, despite …

Abstract The Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) algorithm is widely used to achieve optimum
solution in a short time in integer-based optimization problems. However, the complexity of …

Swarm intelligence (SI) has generated growing interest in recent decades as an algorithm
replicating biological and other natural systems. Several SI algorithms have been developed …

The current global interest in improving the use of ever-scarcer natural resources calls for
the re-alignment of supply chain operations to include not only economic factors, but …

This paper presents a Large Neighbourhood Search (LNS) algorithm that finds an effective
packing of a set of items into containers. The aim of the LNS algorithm is to provide packing …