Sara Chenche

Work place: Computer science department, Mentouri University of Constantine, Constantine, Algeria

E-mail: sara.chenche@hotmail.com

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Research Interests: Combinatorial Optimization

Biography

Sara Chenche received Master’s degree from Mentouri University of Constantine, Algeria in 2011. Her main interests are the bin packing problems and the combinatorial optimization methods.

Author Articles
A Novel GRASP Algorithm for Solving the Bin Packing Problem

By Abdesslem Layeb Sara Chenche

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijieeb.2012.02.02, Pub. Date: 8 Apr. 2012

The Bin Packing Problem (BPP) is one of the most known combinatorial optimization problems. This problem consists in packing a set of items into a minimum number of bins. There are several variants of this problem; the most basic problem is the one-dimensional bin packing problem (1-BPP). In this paper, we present a new approach based on the GRASP procedure to deal with the1-BPP problem. The first GRASP phase is based on a new random heuristics based on hybridization between First Fit and Best Fit heuristics. The second GRASP phase is based on Tabu search algorithm used for the enhancement of the solutions found in the first phase. The obtained results are very encouraging and show the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed approach.

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