Ren, Jidong; Tian, Yajie; Sawaragi, Tetsuo - In: European Journal of Operational Research 214 (2011) 3, pp. 526-535
This paper addresses a special kind of container loading problem with shipment priority. We present a tree search method, which is based on a greedy heuristic. In the greedy heuristic, blocks made up of identical items with the same orientation are selected for packing into a container. Five...