López-Camacho, Eunice; Terashima-Marín, Hugo; Ochoa, … - In: International Journal of Production Economics 145 (2013) 2, pp. 488-499
This paper uses a knowledge discovery method, Principal Component Analysis (PCA), to gain a deeper understanding of the structure of bin packing problems and how this relates to the performance of heuristic approaches to solve them. The study considers six heuristics and their combination...