Often charges have to be paid by customers in advance of services. Therefore, the flexibleconfiguration of rate structures is an important distinguishing mark of competing companies.Since the prompt adaptation of changes to new situations enhances competitive power, thereis vital need to...

This paper presents a parallel tabu search algorithm for the container loading problem with a single container to be loaded. The emphasis is on the case of a weakly heterogeneous load. The distributed-parallel approach is based on the concept of multi-search threads according to Toulouse et al....