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Improved approximation for two dimensional strip packing with polynomial bounded width

Data Structures and Algorithms 2017-12-14 v2

Abstract

We study the well-known two-dimensional strip packing problem. Given is a set of rectangular axis-parallel items and a strip of width WW with infinite height. The objective is to find a packing of these items into the strip, which minimizes the packing height. Lately, it has been shown that the lower bound of 3/23/2 of the absolute approximation ratio can be beaten when we allow a pseudo-polynomial running-time of type (nW)f(1/ε)(n W)^{f(1/\varepsilon)}. If WW is polynomially bounded by the number of items, this is a polynomial running-time. We present a pseudo-polynomial algorithm with approximation ratio 4/3+ε4/3 +\varepsilon and running time (nW)1/εO(21/ε)(n W)^{1/\varepsilon^{\mathcal{O}(2^{1/\varepsilon})}}.

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@article{arxiv.1610.04430,
  title  = {Improved approximation for two dimensional strip packing with polynomial bounded width},
  author = {Klaus Jansen and Malin Rau},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.04430},
  year   = {2017}
}

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Research was supported in part by German Research Foundation (DFG) project JA 612 /14-2

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