TL;DR —
The Colorful Bin Packing Problem (CBPP) presents unique challenges due to color constraints in bin allocation. This article introduces novel heuristics, meta-heuristic algorithms like Variable Neighborhood Search (VNS), and a matheuristic approach to efficiently solve CBPP instances. Results indicate near-optimal solutions even for large datasets, making significant strides in computational optimization for this NP-hard problem.
Authors:
(1) Renan F. F. da Silva, Institute of Computing, University of Campinas;
(2) Yulle G. F. Borges, Institute of Computing, University of Campinas;
(3) Rafael C. S. Schouery, Institute of Computing, University of Campinas.
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This paper is available on arxiv under CC 4.0 license.
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heuristic-algorithms|computational-optimization|meta-heuristic|matheuristic-algorithm|colorful-bin-packing-problem|bin-packing-problem|cbpp-heuristics|two-by-two-heuristic
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