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We study constant-factor approximation algorithms for the Bin Packing Problem with Setups (BPPS). First, we show that adaptations of classical BPP heuristics can have arbitrarily poor worst-case performance on BPPS instances. Then, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Roberto Baldacci , Fabio Ciccarelli , Stefano Coniglio , Valerio Dose , Fabio Furini

The paper described a generalized integrated glance to bin packing problems including a brief literature survey and some new problem formulations for the cases of multiset estimates of items. A new systemic viewpoint to bin packing problems…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-05-25 Mark Sh. Levin

We give an $\alpha(1+\epsilon)$-approximation algorithm for solving covering LPs, assuming the presence of a $(1/\alpha)$-approximation algorithm for a certain optimization problem. Our algorithm is based on a simple modification of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Eklavya Sharma

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

The Bin Packing Problem is one of the most important Combinatorial Optimization problems in optimization and has a lot of real-world applications. Many approximation algorithms have been presented for this problem because of its NP-hard…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-09-22 Abdolahad Noori Zehmakan , Mojtaba Eslahi

Since the Bin Packing Problem (BPP) is one of the main NP-hard problems, a lot of approximation algorithms have been suggested for it. It has been proven that the best algorithm for BPP has the approximation ratio of 3/2 and the time order…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-10-28 Abdolahad Noori Zehmakan

In this paper, we study the following knapsack problem: Given a list of squares with profits, we are requested to pack a sublist of them into a rectangular bin (not a unit square bin) to make profits in the bin as large as possible. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Xin Han , Kazuo Iwama , Guochuan Zhang

We investigate approximation algorithms for several fundamental optimization problems on geometric packing. The geometric objects considered are very generic, namely $d$-dimensional convex fat objects. Our main contribution is a versatile…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Vítor Gomes Chagas , Elisa Dell'Arriva , Flávio Keidi Miyazawa

In the recent paper \cite{BDT10} we introduced a new problem that we call Bin Packing/Covering with Delivery, or BP/CD for short. Mainly we mean under this expression that we look for not only a good, but a "good and fast" packing or…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Gyorgy Dosa , Zsolt Tuza

Packing cost accounts for a large part of the e-commerce logistics cost. Mining the patterns of customer orders and designing suitable packing bins help to reduce operating cost. In the classical bin packing problem, a given set of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-12-10 Xinhang Zhang , Haoyuan Hu , Longfei Wang , Zhijun Sun , Ying Zhang , Kunpeng Han , Yinghui Xu

Routing and scheduling problems are fundamental problems in combinatorial optimization, and also have many applications. Most variations of these problems are NP-Hard, so we need to use heuristics to solve these problems on large instances,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-02-20 Arindam Pal

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 ROUND-UFP and ROUND-SAP, two generalizations of the classical BIN PACKING problem that correspond to the unsplittable flow problem on a path (UFP) and the storage allocation problem (SAP), respectively. We are given a path with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Debajyoti Kar , Arindam Khan , Andreas Wiese

In this paper, approximation schemes are proposed for handling load uncertainty in compliance-based topology optimization problems, where the uncertainty is described in the form of a set of finitely many loading scenarios. Efficient…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Mohamed Tarek , Tapabrata Ray

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

Bin packing is an algorithmic problem that arises in diverse applications such as remnant inventory systems, shipping logistics, and appointment scheduling. In its simplest variant, a sequence of $T$ items (e.g., orders for raw material,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Varun Gupta , Ana Radovanovic

This paper considers an optimization problem for a dynamical system whose evolution depends on a collection of binary decision variables. We develop scalable approximation algorithms with provable suboptimality bounds to provide…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-31 Insoon Yang , Samuel A. Burden , Ram Rajagopal , S. Shankar Sastry , Claire J. Tomlin

In a recent paper, Brusco, K\"ohn and Steinley [Ann. Oper. Res. 206:611-626 (2013)] conjecture that the 2 bins special case of the one-dimensional minimax bin-packing problem with bin size constraints might be solvable in polynomial time.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-02-10 Mariona Vilà , Jordi Pereira

Bin Packing problems have been widely studied because of their broad applications in different domains. Known as a set of NP-hard problems, they have different vari- ations and many heuristics have been proposed for obtaining approximate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-02-16 Feng Mao , Edgar Blanco , Mingang Fu , Rohit Jain , Anurag Gupta , Sebastien Mancel , Rong Yuan , Stephen Guo , Sai Kumar , Yayang Tian

We consider a variant of bin packing called multiple-choice vector bin packing. In this problem we are given a set of items, where each item can be selected in one of several $D$-dimensional incarnations. We are also given $T$ bin types,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-05-14 Boaz Patt-Shamir , Dror Rawitz