Rethmann, Jochen; Wanke, Egon - In: Mathematical Methods of Operations Research 51 (2000) 2, pp. 203-233
We consider the combinatorial stack-up problem motivated by stacking up bins from a conveyor onto pallets. The stack-up problem is to decide whether a given list q of labeled objects can be processed by removing step by step one of the first s objects of q so that the following holds. After each...