Evolutionary based heuristic for bin packing problem

  • Authors:
  • Adam Stawowy

  • Affiliations:
  • Faculty of Management, AGH University of Science and Technology, Gramatyka 10, 30-067 Krakow, Poland

  • Venue:
  • Computers and Industrial Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

In this paper, we investigate the use of evolutionary based heuristic to the one-dimensional bin packing problem (BPP). Unlike other evolutionary heuristics used with optimization problems, a non-specialized and non-hybridized algorithm is proposed and analyzed for solving BPP. The algorithm uses a modified permutation with separators encoding scheme, unique concept of separators' movements during mutation, and separators removal as a technique of problem size reduction. The set of experiments confirmed that the proposed approach is comparable to much more complicated algorithms.