Evolutionary algorithms and hyper-heuristics for orthogonal packing problems

This thesis investigates two major classes of Evolutionary Algorithms, Genetic Algorithms (GAs) and Evolution Strategies (ESs), and their application to the Orthogonal Packing Problems (OPP). OPP are canonical models for NP-hard problems, the class of problems widely conceived to be unsolvable on a...

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Main Author: Guo, Qiang
Format: Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2011
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/29311/