Largest-first sequential selection with a sum constraint
Operations Research Letters
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We study the expected behavior of the FFD binpacking algorithm applied to items whose sizes are distributed in accordance with a Poisson process with rate N on the interval [0,1/2] of item sizes. By viewing the algorithm as a succession of queueing processes we show that the expected wasted space for FFD bin-packing is bounded above by 9.4 bins, independent of N. We extend this upper bound to a FFD bin-packing of items in accordance with a non-homogeneous Poisson process with a nonincreasing intensity function λ(t) on [0,1/2].