IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/wly/navlog/v26y1979i4p643-650.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

A heuristic routine for solving large loading problems

Author

Listed:
  • John C. Fisk
  • Ming S. Hung

Abstract

The loading problem involves the optimal allocation of n objects, each having a specified weight and value, to m boxes, each of specified capacity. While special cases of these problems can be solved with relative ease, the general problem having variable item weights and box sizes can become very difficult to solve. This paper presents a heuristic procedure for solving large loading problems of the more general type. The procedure uses a surrogate procedure for reducing the original problem to a simpler knapsack problem, the solution of which is then employed in searching for feasible solutions to the original problem. The procedure is easy to apply, and is capable of identifying optimal solutions if they are found.

Suggested Citation

  • John C. Fisk & Ming S. Hung, 1979. "A heuristic routine for solving large loading problems," Naval Research Logistics Quarterly, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 26(4), pages 643-650, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:navlog:v:26:y:1979:i:4:p:643-650
    DOI: 10.1002/nav.3800260409
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/nav.3800260409
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1002/nav.3800260409?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Dell’Amico, Mauro & Delorme, Maxence & Iori, Manuel & Martello, Silvano, 2019. "Mathematical models and decomposition methods for the multiple knapsack problem," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 274(3), pages 886-899.
    2. Olivier Lalonde & Jean-François Côté & Bernard Gendron, 2022. "A Branch-and-Price Algorithm for the Multiple Knapsack Problem," INFORMS Journal on Computing, INFORMS, vol. 34(6), pages 3134-3150, November.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:wly:navlog:v:26:y:1979:i:4:p:643-650. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Wiley Content Delivery (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://doi.org/10.1002/(ISSN)1931-9193 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.