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The Two-dimensional Bin Packing Problem calls for packing a set of rectangular items into a minimal set of larger rectangular bins. Items must be packed with their edges parallel to the borders of the bins, cannot be rotated and cannot…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-17 Jean-François Côté , Mohamed Haouari , Manuel Iori

The n-way number partitioning problem, a fundamental challenge in combinatorial optimization, has significant implications for applications such as fair division and machine scheduling. Despite these problems being NP-hard, many…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Samuel Bismuth , Erel Segal-Halevi , Dana Shapira

We study the online bin packing problem under two stochastic settings. In the bin packing problem, we are given n items with sizes in (0,1] and the goal is to pack them into the minimum number of unit-sized bins. First, we study bin packing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Nikhil Ayyadevara , Rajni Dabas , Arindam Khan , K. V. N. Sreenivas

We study the following variant of the classic {\em bin packing} problem. Given a set of items of various sizes, partitioned into groups, find a packing of the items in a minimum number of identical (unit-size) bins, such that no two items…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Ilan Doron-Arad , Ariel Kulik , Hadas Shachnai

Many combinatorial optimisation problems can be modelled as valued constraint satisfaction problems. In this paper, we present a polynomial-time algorithm solving the valued constraint satisfaction problem for a fixed number of variables…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-03 Manuel Bodirsky , Marcello Mamino , Caterina Viola

Packing problems are in general NP-hard, even for simple cases. Since now there are no highly efficient algorithms available for solving packing problems. The two-dimensional bin packing problem is about packing all given rectangular items,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Camelia-M. Pintea , Cristian Pascan , Mara Hajdu-Macelaru

A polyomino is a polygonal region with axis parallel edges and corners of integral coordinates, which may have holes. In this paper, we consider planar tiling and packing problems with polyomino pieces and a polyomino container $P$. We give…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Anders Aamand , Mikkel Abrahamsen , Thomas D. Ahle , Peter M. R. Rasmussen

Reallocation scheduling is one of the most fundamental problems in various areas such as supply chain management, logistics, and transportation science. In this paper, we introduce the reallocation problem that models the scheduling in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Toshimasa Ishii , Jun Kawahara , Kazuhisa Makino , Hirotaka Ono

We study a dynamic vector bin packing (DVBP) problem. We show hardness for shrinking arbitrary DVBP instances to size polynomial in the number of request types or in the maximal number of requests overlapping in time. We also present a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-20 René van Bevern , Andrey Melnikov , Pavel Smirnov , Oxana Tsidulko

Cutting rectangular items from stock sheets to satisfy demands while minimizing waste is a central manufacturing task. The Two-Dimensional Single Stock Size Cutting Stock Problem (2D-CSSP) generalizes bin packing by requiring multiple…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Tuyen Van Kieu , Chi Linh Hoang , Khanh Van To

We give an asymptotic approximation scheme (APTAS) for the problem of packing a set of circles into a minimum number of unit square bins. To obtain rational solutions, we use augmented bins of height $1+\gamma$, for some arbitrarily small…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-12-16 Flávio K. Miyazawa , Lehilton L. C. Pedrosa , Rafael C. S. Schouery , Maxim Sviridenko , Yoshiko Wakabayashi

The bin packing problem is to find the minimum number of bins of size one to pack a list of items with sizes $a_1,..., a_n$ in $(0,1]$. Using uniform sampling, which selects a random element from the input list each time, we develop a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-02-25 Richard Beigel , Bin Fu

This paper presents theoretical and practical results for the bin packing problem with scenarios, a generalization of the classical bin packing problem which considers the presence of uncertain scenarios, of which only one is realized. For…

Consider the classical Bin Packing problem with $d$ different item sizes $s_i$ and amounts of items $a_i.$ The support of a Bin Packing solution is the number of differently filled bins. In this work, we show that the lower bound on the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Klaus Jansen , Felix Ohnesorge , Lis Pirotton , Malte Tutas

We introduce the strongly NP-complete pagination problem, an extension of BIN PACKING where packing together two items may make them occupy less volume than the sum of their individual sizes. To achieve this property, an item is defined as…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-09-06 Aristide Grange , Imed Kacem , Sébastien Martin

Efficient packing of items into bins is a common daily task. Known as Bin Packing Problem, it has been intensively studied in the field of artificial intelligence, thanks to the wide interest from industry and logistics. Since decades, many…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Sebastián V. Romero , Eneko Osaba , Esther Villar-Rodriguez , Izaskun Oregi , Yue Ban

This paper presents an algorithmic study of a class of covering mixed-integer linear programming problems which encompasses classic cover problems, including multidimensional knapsack, facility location and supplier selection problems. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Kobe Grobben , Phablo F. S. Moura , Hande Yaman

We present new approximation schemes for bin packing based on the following two approaches: (1) partitioning the given problem into mostly identical sub-problems of constant size and then construct a solution by combining the solutions of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Srikrishnan Divakaran

In this paper we present a fast scalable heuristic for bin packing that partitions the given problem into identical sub-problems of constant size and solves these constant size sub-problems by considering only a constant number of bin…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Srikrishnan Divakaran

We study the Colored Bin Packing Problem: we are given a set of items where each item has a weight and color. We must pack the items in bins of uniform capacity such that no two items of the same color may be adjacent within in a bin. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-09-01 Hamza Alsarhan , Davin Chia , Ananya Christman , Shannia Fu , Tony Jin