English
Related papers

Related papers: A new and improved algorithm for online bin packin…

200 papers

In the (1-dimensional) bin packing problem, we are asked to pack all the given items into bins, each of capacity one, so that the number of non-empty bins is minimized. Zhu~[Chaos, Solitons \& Fractals 2016] proposed an approximation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Hiroshi Fujiwara , Rina Atsumi , Hiroaki Yamamoto

We consider the setting of online computation with advice, and study the bin packing problem and a number of scheduling problems. We show that it is possible, for any of these problems, to arbitrarily approach a competitive ratio of $1$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-08-06 Marc P. Renault , Adi Rosén , Rob van Stee

In this paper, we study online multidimensional bin packing problem when all items are hypercubes. Based on the techniques in one dimensional bin packing algorithm Super Harmonic by Seiden, we give a framework for online hypercube packing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Xin Han , Deshi Ye , Yong Zhou

Online algorithms that allow a small amount of migration or recourse have been intensively studied in the last years. They are essential in the design of competitive algorithms for dynamic problems, where objects can also depart from the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Sebastian Berndt , Valentin Dreismann , Kilian Grage , Klaus Jansen , Ingmar Knof

In the online bin packing problem, a sequence of items is revealed one at a time, and each item must be packed into an available bin instantly upon its arrival. In this paper, we revisit the problem under a setting where the total number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Shang Liu , Xiaocheng Li

In this paper we present the first algorithm with optimal average-case and close-to-best known worst-case performance for the classic on-line problem of bin packing. It has long been observed that known bin packing algorithms with optimal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-04-18 Shahin Kamali , Alejandro López-Ortiz

We consider the online vector bin packing problem where $n$ items specified by $d$-dimensional vectors must be packed in the fewest number of identical $d$-dimensional bins. Azar et al. (STOC'13) showed that for any online algorithm $A$,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-08-06 Nikhil Bansal , Ilan Reuven Cohen

We consider several previously studied online variants of bin packing and prove new and improved lower bounds on the asymptotic competitive ratios for them. For that, we use a method of fully adaptive constructions. In particular, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-08-11 János Balogh , József Békési , György Dósa , Leah Epstein , Asaf Levin

The Bin Packing Problem involves efficiently packing items into a limited number of bins without exceeding their capacity. In this paper, we try to answer a specific question in this field. Mathematically the combinatorial optimization…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2025-08-25 Angshuman Robin Goswami

Bin packing with cardinality constraints is a bin packing problem where an upper bound k \geq 2 on the number of items packed into each bin is given, in addition to the standard constraint on the total size of items packed into a bin. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-04-04 Gyorgy Dosa , Leah Epstein

Motivated by bursty bandwidth allocation and by the allocation of virtual machines to servers in the cloud, we consider the online problem of packing items with random sizes into unit-capacity bins. Items arrive sequentially, but upon…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-08 Sebastian Perez-Salazar , Mohit Singh , Alejandro Toriello

We study the discrete bin covering problem where a multiset of items from a fixed set $S \subseteq (0,1]$ must be split into disjoint subsets while maximizing the number of subsets whose contents sum to at least $1$. We study the online…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Magnus Berg , Shahin Kamali

The online bin covering problem is: given an input sequence of items find a placement of the items in the maximum number of bins such that the sum of the items' sizes in each bin is at least~1. Boyar~{\em et~al}.\@~\cite{boyar2021} present…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Andrej Brodnik , Bengt J. Nilsson , Gordana Vujović

We study the following problem, introduced by Chung et al. in 2006. We are given, online or offline, a set of coloured items of different sizes, and wish to pack them into bins of equal size so that we use few bins in total (at most…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-08-18 Andrew Twigg , Eduardo C. Xavier

The following online bin packing problem is considered: Items with integer sizes are given and variable sized bins arrive online. A bin must be used if there is still an item remaining which fits in it when the bin arrives. The goal is to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Joan Boyar , Faith Ellen

We consider online packing problems where we get a stream of axis-parallel rectangles. The rectangles have to be placed in the plane without overlapping, and each rectangle must be placed without knowing the subsequent rectangles. The goal…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Mikkel Abrahamsen , Lorenzo Beretta

Packing a given sequence of items into as few bins as possible in an online fashion is a widely studied problem. We improve lower bounds for packing boxes into bins in two or more dimensions, both for general algorithms for squares and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-07 David Blitz , Sandy Heydrich , Rob van Stee , André van Vliet , Gerhard J. Woeginger

We analyze the competitive ratio and the advice complexity of the online unbounded knapsack problem. An instance is given as a sequence of n items with a size and a value each, and an algorithm has to decide how often to pack each item into…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Hans-Joachim Böckenhauer , Matthias Gehnen , Juraj Hromkovič , Ralf Klasing , Dennis Komm , Henri Lotze , Daniel Mock , Peter Rossmanith , Moritz Stocker

In this paper we consider the Online Bin Packing Problem in three variants: Circles in Squares, Circles in Isosceles Right Triangles, and Spheres in Cubes. The two first ones receive an online sequence of circles (items) of different radii…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-08-30 Carla Negri Lintzmayer , Flávio Keidi Miyazawa , Eduardo Candido Xavier

The online bin packing problem and its variants are regularly used to model server allocation problems. Modern concerns surrounding sustainability and overcommitment in cloud computing motivate bin packing models that capture costs…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Jackson Bibbens , Cooper Sigrist , Bo Sun , Shahin Kamali , Mohammad Hajiesmaili