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In this work, we consider online vector bin packing. It is known that no algorithm can have a competitive ratio of $o(d/\log^2 d)$ in the absolute sense, though upper bounds for this problem were always shown in the asymptotic sense. Since…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Janos Balogh , Leah Epstein , Asaf Levin

Best-Fit is one of the most prominent and practically used algorithms for the bin packing problem, where a set of items with associated sizes needs to be packed in the minimum number of unit-capacity bins. Kenyon [SODA '96] studied online…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Anish Hebbar , Arindam Khan , K. V. N. Sreenivas

Semi-online models where decisions may be revoked in a limited way have been studied extensively in the last years. This is motivated by the fact that the pure online model is often too restrictive to model real-world applications, where…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Sebastian Berndt , Leah Epstein , Klaus Jansen , Asaf Levin , Marten Maack , Lars Rohwedder

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

We consider the file maintenance problem (also called the online labeling problem) in which n integer items from the set {1,...,r} are to be stored in an array of size m >= n. The items are presented sequentially in an arbitrary order, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Jan Bulánek , Michal Koucký , Michael Saks

This paper studies the online vector bin packing (OVBP) problem and the related problem of online hypergraph coloring (OHC). Firstly, we use a double counting argument to prove an upper bound of the competitive ratio of $FirstFit$ for OVBP.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Yaqiao Li , Denis Pankratov

Several well-studied online resource allocation problems can be formulated in terms of infinite, increasing sequences of positive values, in which each element is associated with a corresponding allocation value. Examples include problems…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Spyros Angelopoulos , Diogo Arsénio , Shahin Kamali

The analysis of online least squares estimation is at the heart of many stochastic sequential decision making problems. We employ tools from the self-normalized processes to provide a simple and self-contained proof of a tail bound of a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-02-15 Yasin Abbasi-Yadkori , David Pal , Csaba Szepesvari

In the bin covering problem, the goal is to fill as many bins as possible up to a certain minimal level with a given set of items of different sizes. Online variants, in which the items arrive one after another and have to be packed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-12-16 Carsten Fischer , Heiko Röglin

Physical feasibility in 3D bin packing is a key requirement in modern industrial logistics and robotic automation. With the growing adoption of industrial automation, online bin packing has gained increasing attention. However,…

Online classification is a central problem in optimization, statistical learning and data science. Classical algorithms such as the perceptron offer efficient updates and finite mistake guarantees on linearly separable data, but they do not…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-25 Nam Ho-Nguyen , Fatma Kılınç-Karzan , Ellie Nguyen , Lingqing Shen

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

The advice complexity of an online problem is a measure of how much knowledge of the future an online algorithm needs in order to achieve a certain competitive ratio. Using advice complexity, we define the first online complexity class,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-05-26 Joan Boyar , Lene M. Favrholdt , Christian Kudahl , Jesper W. Mikkelsen

In this paper we establish a general algorithmic framework between bin packing and strip packing, with which we achieve the same asymptotic bounds by applying bin packing algorithms to strip packing. More precisely we obtain the following…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Xin Han , Kazuo Iwama , Deshi Ye , Guochuan Zhang

In the Colored Bin Packing problem a sequence of items of sizes up to $1$ arrives to be packed into bins of unit capacity. Each item has one of $c\geq 2$ colors and an additional constraint is that we cannot pack two items of the same color…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-12-05 Martin Böhm , Jiří Sgall , Pavel Veselý

Imagine yourself moving to another place, and therefore, you need to pack all of your belongings into moving boxes with some capacity. In the classical bin packing model, you would try to minimize the number of boxes, knowing the exact size…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Matthias Gehnen , Andreas Usdenski

It is well known in the Constraint Programming community that any non-binary constraint satisfaction problem (with finite domains) can be transformed into an equivalent binary one. One of the most well-known translations is the Hidden…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Catherine Dubois

In this paper, we consider the online version of the machine minimization problem (introduced by Chuzhoy et al., FOCS 2004), where the goal is to schedule a set of jobs with release times, deadlines, and processing lengths on a minimum…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-03-06 Nikhil Devanur , Konstantin Makarychev , Debmalya Panigrahi , Grigory Yaroslavtsev

In the online matching on the line problem, the task is to match a set of requests $R$ online to a given set of servers $S$. The distance metric between any two points in $R\,\cup\, S$ is a line metric and the objective for the online…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-12-20 Antonios Antoniadis , Carsten Fischer , Andreas Tönnis