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We consider a variant of the classical Bin Packing Problem, called Fully Dynamic Bin Packing. In this variant, items of a size in $(0,1]$ must be packed in bins of unit size. In each time step, an item either arrives or departs from the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-25 Björn Feldkord , Matthias Feldotto , Sören Riechers

We consider two well-known natural variants of bin packing, and show that these packing problems admit asymptotic fully polynomial time approximation schemes (AFPTAS). In bin packing problems, a set of one-dimensional items of size at most…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-02-16 Leah Epstein , Asaf Levin

The bin covering problem asks for covering a maximum number of bins with an online sequence of $n$ items of different sizes in the range $(0,1]$; a bin is said to be covered if it receives items of total size at least 1. We study this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Joan Boyar , Lene M. Favrholdt , Shahin Kamali , Kim S. Larsen

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

In this paper we develop general LP and ILP techniques to find an approximate solution with improved objective value close to an existing solution. The task of improving an approximate solution is closely related to a classical theorem of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-02-19 Klaus Jansen , Kim-Manuel Klein

Bin covering is a dual version of classic bin packing. Thus, the goal is to cover as many bins as possible, where covering a bin means packing items of total size at least one in the bin. For online bin covering, competitive analysis fails…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-02-28 Marie G. Christ , Lene M. Favrholdt , Kim S. Larsen

We present prior robust algorithms for a large class of resource allocation problems where requests arrive one-by-one (online), drawn independently from an unknown distribution at every step. We design a single algorithm that, for every…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Nikhil R. Devanur , Kamal Jain , Balasubramanian Sivan , Christopher A. Wilkens

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 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 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

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

The knapsack problem is one of the classical problems in combinatorial optimization: Given a set of items, each specified by its size and profit, the goal is to find a maximum profit packing into a knapsack of bounded capacity. In the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Susanne Albers , Arindam Khan , Leon Ladewig

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 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

We present a new generalization of the bin covering problem that is known to be a strongly NP-hard problem. In our generalization there is a positive constant $\Delta$, and we are given a set of items each of which has a positive size. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Asaf Levin

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

We study an online version of the max-min fair allocation problem for indivisible items. In this problem, items arrive one by one, and each item must be allocated irrevocably on arrival to one of $n$ agents, who have additive valuations for…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Yasushi Kawase , Hanna Sumita

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

We study a variant of online bin packing, called colorful bin packing. In this problem, items that are presented one by one are to be packed into bins of size 1. Each item i has a size s_i \in [0,1] and a color c_i \in C, where C is a set…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-04-16 Gyorgy Dosa , Leah Epstein