Hybrid metaheuristic algorithms for single and multi-objective 2D Bin packing problem


Tezin Türü: Yüksek Lisans

Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi, Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü, Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü, Türkiye

Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2015

Öğrenci: MUHAMMED BEYAZ

Danışman: AHMET COŞAR

Özet:

2D Bin packing problem (2DBPP) is an NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem. Objects with di erent width and length sizes are packed in order to minimize the number of unit-capacity bins according to an objective function. Single or multiobjective versions of this well-known industrial engineering problem can be faced frequently in real life situations. There have been several heuristics proposed for the solution of 2DBPP until now where it is not possible to find the exact solutions for large problem instances. Next fit, First Fit, Best Fit, Unified Tabu Search and Genetic Algorithms are some of these algorithms. Recently, Memetic Algorithms have put themselves forward as a new area of research in evolutionary computation with their ability to combine di erent heuristics and local search mechanisms together for higher quality solutions. In this thesis, we propose a set of single and multiobjective memetic and genetic algorithms that make use of the state-of-the-art metaheuristics and local search techniques for the solution of 2DBPP. We analyze the optimization time and the resulting solution quality of the algorithms on a 2DBPP benchmark offline problem set with 500 instances. Through results of exhaustive experiments and with the aid of a novel visual analyzer developed in this study, we conclude that the proposed memetic and hybrid genetic algorithms are robust with their ability to obtain very high percentage of the optimal solutions for the given benchmark problem instances.