The paper presents two metaheuristics, a tabu search algorithm (TSA) and a genetic algorithm (GA), for the so-called strip packing problem. Strip packing problems represent a special class of multidimensional packing problems. In the three-dimensional case the strip packing prob-lem may be...

The paper presents a genetic algorithm (GA) for the container loading problem. The main ideas of the approach are first to generate a set of disjunctive box towers and second to arrange the box towers on the floor of the container according to a given optimization criterion. The loading problem...