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In the problem of online unweighted interval selection, the objective is to maximize the number of non-conflicting intervals accepted by the algorithm. In the conventional online model of irrevocable decisions, there is an Omega(n) lower…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Allan Borodin , Christodoulos Karavasilis

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

Recently, Renault (2016) studied the dual bin packing problem in the per-request advice model of online algorithms. He showed that given $O(1/\epsilon)$ advice bits for each input item allows approximating the dual bin packing problem…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Allan Borodin , Denis Pankratov , Amirali Salehi-Abari

We study the fault-tolerant variant of the online bin packing problem. Similar to the classic bin packing problem, an online sequence of items of various sizes should be packed into a minimum number of bins of uniform capacity. For…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Shahin Kamali , Pooya Nikbakht

We consider the online vector packing problem in which we have a $d$ dimensional knapsack and items $u$ with weight vectors $\mathbf{w}_u \in \mathbb{R}_+^d$ arrive online in an arbitrary order. Upon the arrival of an item, the algorithm…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-06-22 T-H. Hubert Chan , Shaofeng H. -C. Jiang , Zhihao Gavin Tang , Xiaowei Wu

The 2D Online Bin Packing is a fundamental problem in Computer Science and the determination of its asymptotic competitive ratio has attracted great research attention. In a long series of papers, the lower bound of this ratio has been…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-06-03 Xin Han , Francis Y. L. Chin , Hing-Fung Ting , Guochuan Zhang

In this work, we study the square min-sum bin packing problem (SMSBPP), where a list of square items has to be packed into indexed square bins of dimensions $1 \times 1$ with no overlap between the areas of the items. The bins are indexed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Rachel Vanucchi Saraiva , Rafael C. S. Schouery

We study the problem of maximizing a monotone submodular function subject to a Multiple Knapsack constraint. The input is a set $I$ of items, each has a non-negative weight, and a set of bins of arbitrary capacities. Also, we are given a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Yaron Fairstein , Ariel Kulik , Joseph , Naor , Danny Raz , Hadas Shachnai

We study a wholesale supply chain ordering problem. In this problem, the supplier has an initial stock, and faces an unpredictable stream of incoming orders, making real-time decisions on whether to accept or reject each order. What makes…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Will Ma , David Simchi-Levi , Jinglong Zhao

We present an $n\Delta^{O(k^2)}$ time algorithm to obtain an optimal solution for $1$-dimensional cutting stock problem: the bin packing problem of packing $n$ items onto unit capacity bins under the restriction that the number of item…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Srikrishnan Divakaran

We study a two-dimensional generalization of the classical Bin Packing problem, denoted as 2D Demand Bin Packing. In this context, each bin is a horizontal timeline, and rectangular tasks (representing electric appliances or computational…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Susanne Albers , Waldo Gálvez , Ömer Behic Özdemir

We consider the Bin Packing problem with a partition matroid constraint. The input is a set of items of sizes in $(0,1]$, and a partition matroid over the items. The goal is to pack all items in a minimum number of unit-size bins, such that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Ilan Doron-Arad , Ariel Kulik , Hadas Shachnai

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

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 consider the online stochastic matching problem proposed by Feldman et al. [FMMM09] as a model of display ad allocation. We are given a bipartite graph; one side of the graph corresponds to a fixed set of bins and the other side…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-08-03 Vahideh H. Manshadi , Shayan Oveis Gharan , Amin Saberi

The online knapsack problem is a classic problem in the field of online algorithms. Its canonical version asks how to pack items of different values and weights arriving online into a capacity-limited knapsack so as to maximize the total…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Adam Lechowicz , Rik Sengupta , Bo Sun , Shahin Kamali , Mohammad Hajiesmaili

We consider a memory allocation problem that can be modeled as a version of bin packing where items may be split, but each bin may contain at most two (parts of) items. A 3/2-approximation algorithm and an NP-hardness proof for this problem…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Leah Epstein , Rob van Stee

We present new approximation schemes for bin packing based on the following two approaches: (1) partitioning the given problem into mostly identical sub-problems of constant size and then construct a solution by combining the solutions of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Srikrishnan Divakaran

This paper presents theoretical and practical results for the bin packing problem with scenarios, a generalization of the classical bin packing problem which considers the presence of uncertain scenarios, of which only one is realized. For…

The subset sum algorithm is a natural heuristic for the classical Bin Packing problem: In each iteration, the algorithm finds among the unpacked items, a maximum size set of items that fits into a new bin. More than 35 years after its first…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2009-07-27 Leah Epstein , Elena Kleiman , Julian Mestre