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 paper presents a tree search algorithm for the three-dimensional container loading problem(3D-CLP). The 3D-CLP is the problem of loading a subset of a given set of rectangularboxes into a rectangular container so that the packed volume is maximized. The method hastwo variants: the packing...