Wei, Lijun; Zhu, Wenbin; Lim, Andrew - In: European Journal of Operational Research 241 (2015) 1, pp. 39-49
In the multiple container loading cost minimization problem (MCLCMP), rectangular boxes of various dimensions are loaded into rectangular containers of various sizes so as to minimize the total shipping cost. The MCLCMP can be naturally modeled as a set cover problem. We generalize the set cover...