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We study a natural geometric variant of the classic Knapsack problem called 2D-Knapsack: we are given a set of axis-parallel rectangles and a rectangular bounding box, and the goal is to pack as many of these rectangles inside the box…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Michal Pilipczuk , Mathieu Mari , Timothe Picavet

We study the two-dimensional (geometric) knapsack problem with rotations (2DKR), in which we are given a square knapsack and a set of rectangles with associated profits. The objective is to find a maximum profit subset of rectangles that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Debajyoti Kar , Arindam Khan , Andreas Wiese

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, a new type of 3D bin packing problem (BPP) is proposed, in which a number of cuboid-shaped items must be put into a bin one by one orthogonally. The objective is to find a way to place these items that can minimize the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-08-22 Haoyuan Hu , Xiaodong Zhang , Xiaowei Yan , Longfei Wang , Yinghui Xu

We study the geometric knapsack problem in which we are given a set of $d$-dimensional objects (each with associated profits) and the goal is to find the maximum profit subset that can be packed non-overlappingly into a given…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Pritam Acharya , Sujoy Bhore , Aaryan Gupta , Arindam Khan , Bratin Mondal , Andreas Wiese

In the \textsc{2-Dimensional Knapsack} problem (2DK) we are given a square knapsack and a collection of $n$ rectangular items with integer sizes and profits. Our goal is to find the most profitable subset of items that can be packed…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Waldo Gálvez , Fabrizio Grandoni , Arindam Khan , Diego Ramírez-Romero , Andreas Wiese

We study the two-dimensional geometric knapsack problem (2DK) in which we are given a set of n axis-aligned rectangular items, each one with an associated profit, and an axis-aligned square knapsack. The goal is to find a (non-overlapping)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-22 Waldo Gálvez , Fabrizio Grandoni , Sandy Heydrich , Salvatore Ingala , Arindam Khan , Andreas Wiese

We consider a general class of binary packing problems with a convex quadratic knapsack constraint. We prove that these problems are APX-hard to approximate and present constant-factor approximation algorithms based upon three different…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-19 Max Klimm , Marc E. Pfetsch , Rico Raber , Martin Skutella

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

The Bin Packing Problem (BPP) has attracted enthusiastic research interest recently, owing to widespread applications in logistics and warehousing environments. It is truly essential to optimize the bin packing to enable more objects to be…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Baoying Wang , Huixu Dong

The article proposes a heuristic approximation approach to the bin packing problem under multiple objectives. In addition to the traditional objective of minimizing the number of bins, the heterogeneousness of the elements in each bin is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2008-09-05 Martin Josef Geiger

The two-dimensional irregular bin packing problem (2DIBPP) aims to pack a given set of irregular polygons, referred to as pieces, into fixed-size rectangular bins without overlap, while maximizing bin utilization. Although numerous…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yi Zhou , Haocheng Fu , Yiping Liu , Jian Mao , Zhang-Hua Fu , Yuyi Wang

We investigate the problem of computing a minimal-volume container for the non-overlapping packing of a given set of three-dimensional convex objects. Already the simplest versions of the problem are NP-hard so that we cannot expect to find…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-01-19 Helmut Alt , Nadja Scharf

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

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

In two-dimensional geometric knapsack problem, we are given a set of n axis-aligned rectangular items and an axis-aligned square-shaped knapsack. Each item has integral width, integral height and an associated integral profit. The goal is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Arindam Khan , Arnab Maiti , Amatya Sharma , Andreas Wiese

Optimal packing of objects in containers is a critical problem in various real-life and industrial applications. This paper investigates the two-dimensional packing of convex polygons without rotations, where only translations are allowed.…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Adam Kurpisz , Silvan Suter

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

Recent work has shown that viewing allocators as black-box 2DBP solvers bears meaning. For instance, there exists a 2DBP-based fragmentation metric which often correlates monotonically with maximum resident set size (RSS). Given the field's…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Christos P. Lamprakos , Sotirios Xydis , Francky Catthoor , Dimitrios Soudris

In the Two-Bar Charts Packing Problem (2-BCPP), it is required to pack the bar charts (BCs) consisting of two bars into the horizontal unit-height strip of minimal length. The bars may move vertically within the strip, but it is forbidden…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Adil Erzin , Georgii Melidi , Stepan Nazarenko , Roman Plotnikov