The Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol. 55, No. 7, Part Special Issue: Local Search (Jul., 2004), pp. 705-716 (12 pages) The Bin Packing Problem and the Cutting Stock Problem are two ...

The Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) algorithm is a metaheuristic nature-inspired technique for solving various combinatorial optimization problems. The shortest-path problem is an important ...