The paper presents a heuristic for multiple container loading problems. The method is suited for three-dimensional bin packing problems and for three-dimensional knapsack problems as well. In order to select containers to be loaded and boxes to be packed into a chosen container in an appropriate...

Das Operations Research (OR) als vergleichsweise junge wissenschaftliche Disziplin hat sich mittlerweile fest innerhalb der BWL etabliert. Modelle und Lösungsverfahren des OR lassen sich vielfältig und nutzbringend zur Analyse komplexer betriebswirtschaftlicher Fragestellungen einsetzen...

River floods are part of the natural hydrologic cycle and mayoccur several times per year, caused by heavy downpours andsnowmelt. However, in recent years, often attributed to globalwarming, an increasing number of extreme flood events couldbe observed in central Europe. Moreover, these events...

The area of ‘‘Cutting and Packing’’ (C&P) is stillfascinating a large group of researchers and practitionersworldwide. This feature issue documentssome of the recent developments in the area. Afterthe ones edited by Dyckhoff and Wa¨scher (1990),Bischoff and Wa¨scher (1995), and Wang...