Petering, Matthew E.H.; Hussein, Mazen I. - In: European Journal of Operational Research 231 (2013) 1, pp. 120-130
This paper considers the block relocation problem (BRP), in which a set of identically-sized items is to be retrieved from a set of last-in-first-out (LIFO) stacks in a specific order using the fewest number of moves. The problem is encountered in the maritime container shipping industry and...
