A 3-approximation algorithm for two-dimensional bin packing

  • Authors:
  • Guochuan Zhang

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics, Zhejiang University, China and Institut für Informatik, Universität Freiburg, Georges-Köhler-Allee 79, 79110 Freiburg, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Operations Research Letters
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

In the classical two-dimensional bin packing problem one is asked to pack a set of rectangular items, without overlap and without any rotation, into the minimum number of identical square bins. We give an approximation algorithm with absolute worst-case ratio of 3.