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A space-indexed formulation of packing boxes into a larger box

Optimization and Control 2021-01-05 v1 Artificial Intelligence Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

Current integer programming solvers fail to decide whether 12 unit cubes can be packed into a 1x1x11 box within an hour using the natural relaxation of Chen/Padberg. We present an alternative relaxation of the problem of packing boxes into a larger box, which makes it possible to solve much larger instances.

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@article{arxiv.2101.00441,
  title  = {A space-indexed formulation of packing boxes into a larger box},
  author = {Sam D. Allen and Edmund K. Burke and Jakub Marecek},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.00441},
  year   = {2021}
}

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arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1412.2526