The contribution presents a heuristic for the three-dimensional strip-packing problem (3D-SPP) with rectangular shaped pieces (boxes). The considered 3D-SPP can be formulated as follows: for a given set of boxes and a given longitudinal open container, determine a feasible arrangement of all...

The edge-set encoding is a direct tree representation which directly representstrees as sets of edges. There are two variants of the edge-set encoding:the edge-set encoding without heuristics, and the edge-set encoding withheuristics. An investigation into the bias of the edge-set encoding...

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This paper presents and compares three heuristics for the combinatorial auctionproblem. Besides a simple greedy (SG) mechanism, two metaheuristics, a simulatedannealing (SA), and a genetic algorithm (GA) approach are developedwhich use the combinatorial auction process to an allocation with...

This paper investigates GA approaches for solving the reliable communicationnetwork design problem. For solving this problem a graph withminimum cost must be found that satises a given network reliabilityconstraint. To consider the additional reliability constraint dierent approachesare...

In this paper we investigate the performance of the threshold accepting heuristic for the index tracking problem. The index tracking problem consists in minimizing the tracking error between a portfolio and a benchmark. The objective is to replicate the performance of a given index upon the...

Model selection – choosing the relevant variables and structures – is a central task in econometrics. Given a limited number of observations, estimation and inference depend on this choice. A frequently treated model-selection problem arises in multivariate autoregressive models, where the...

Strip-Packing-Probleme stellen mehrdimensionale Packprobleme dar, die sich im dreidimensionalen Fall wie folgt formulieren lassen. Eine gegebene Menge quaderförmiger Packstücke (Kisten) ist vollständig in einem quaderförmigen und in Längsrichtung offenen Container anzuordnen. Die...