Zhu, Wenbin; Zhang, Zhaoyi; Oon, Wee-Chong; Lim, Andrew - In: European Journal of Operational Research 222 (2012) 3, pp. 452-463
One of main difficulties of multi-dimensional packing problems is the fragmentation of free space into several unusable … into a continuous usable space, which potentially allows the packing of additional items. We illustrate the effectiveness … of this technique using the two- and three-dimensional bin packing problem, where the aim is to load all given items …