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The 3D Bin Packing Problem (3D-BPP) is one of the most demanded yet challenging problems in industry, where an agent must pack variable size items delivered in sequence into a finite bin with the aim to maximize the space utilization. It…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Aaron Valero Puche , Sukhan Lee

This paper focuses on exact approaches for the Colored Bin Packing Problem (CBPP), a generalization of the classical one-dimensional Bin Packing Problem in which each item has, in addition to its length, a color, and no two items of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-25 Yulle G. F. Borges , Rafael C. S. Schouery , Flávio K. Miyazawa

We consider the problem of learning optimal binary classification trees. Literature on the topic has burgeoned in recent years, motivated both by the empirical suboptimality of heuristic approaches and the tremendous improvements in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-05-14 Sina Aghaei , Andres Gomez , Phebe Vayanos

In this paper, we consider the multiple probabilistic covering location problem (MPCLP), which attempts to open a fixed number of facilities to maximize the total covered customer demand under a joint probabilistic coverage setting. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-24 Yan-Ru Wang , Wei-Kun Chen , Ivana Ljubić

We introduce and study a novel generalization of the classical Knapsack Problem (KP), called the Colored Knapsack Problem (CKP). In this problem, the items are partitioned into classes of colors and the packed items need to be ordered such…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-13 Fabio Ciccarelli , Alexander Helber , Erik Mühmer

We introduce the strongly NP-complete pagination problem, an extension of BIN PACKING where packing together two items may make them occupy less volume than the sum of their individual sizes. To achieve this property, an item is defined as…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-09-06 Aristide Grange , Imed Kacem , Sébastien Martin

The three-dimensional bin packing problem (3D-BPP) plays an important role in city logistics and manufacturing environments, due to its direct relevance to operational cost. Most existing literature have investigated the conventional…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Qiruyi Zuo , Xinglu Liu , Wai Kin Victor Chan

The suboptimal physical design of the integrated circuits may not only increase the manufacturing costs due to the larger size of the chip but can also impact its performance by placing interconnected rectangular devices too far from each…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Josef Grus , Zdeněk Hanzálek

Integer and mixed-integer nonlinear programming (INLP, MINLP) are central to logistics, energy, and scheduling, but remain computationally challenging. This survey examines how machine learning and reinforcement learning can enhance exact…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Morteza Kimiaei , Vyacheslav Kungurtsev , Brian Olimba

This paper introduces a novel compact mixed integer linear programming (MILP) formulation and a discretization discovery-based solution approach for the Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows (VRPTW). We aim to solve the optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-04 Udayan Mandal , Amelia Regan , Louis Martin Rousseau , Julian Yarkony

Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs) are essential measuring devices for monitoring, control and protection of power systems. The objective of the optimal PMU placement (OPP) problem is to minimize the number of PMUs and select the bus locations…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-08-25 Nikolaos Theodorakatos , Nikolaos Manousakis , George Korres

Linear Programming (LP) is widely applied in industry and is a key component of various other mathematical problem-solving techniques. Recent work introduced an LP compiler translating polynomial-time, polynomial-space algorithms into…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Shermin Khosravi , David Bremner

We consider the problem of assigning flights to baggage belts in the baggage reclaim area of an airport. The problem is originated by a real-life application in Copenhagen airport. The objective is to construct a robust schedule taking…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-12 David Pisinger , Rosario Scatamacchia

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

Integer Linear Programming (ILP) has a broad range of applications in various areas of artificial intelligence. Yet in spite of recent advances, we still lack a thorough understanding of which structural restrictions make ILP tractable.…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Pavel Dvořák , Eduard Eiben , Robert Ganian , Dušan Knop , Sebastian Ordyniak

Online 3-dimensional bin packing problem (O3D-BPP) is getting renewed prominence due to the industrial automation brought by Industry 4.0. However, due to limited attention in the past and its challenging nature, a good approximate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Ankush Ojha , Marichi Agarwal , Aniruddha Singhal , Chayan Sarkar , Supratim Ghosh , Rajesh Sinha

It is well known that selecting a good Mixed Integer Programming (MIP) formulation is crucial for an effective solution with state-of-the art solvers. While best practices and guidelines for constructing good formulations abound, there is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-23 Juan Pablo Vielma

We propose an extended variant of the reformulation and decomposition algorithm for solving a special class of mixed-integer bilevel linear programs (MIBLPs) where continuous and integer variables are involved in both upper- and lower-level…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-03 Dajun Yue , Jiyao Gao , Bo Zeng , Fengqi You

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 introduce the subset assignment problem in which items of varying sizes are placed in a set of bins with limited capacity. Items can be replicated and placed in any subset of the bins. Each (item, subset) pair has an associated cost. Not…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-10-04 Shahram Ghandeharizadeh , Sandy Irani , Jenny Lam