Multidimensional on-line bin packing: Algorithms and worst-case analysis

  • Authors:
  • Don Coppersmith;Prabhakar Raghavan

  • Affiliations:
  • IBM Research Division, T.J. Watson Research Center, Box 218, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, USA;IBM Research Division, T.J. Watson Research Center, Box 218, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, USA

  • Venue:
  • Operations Research Letters
  • Year:
  • 1989

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Abstract

We consider the problem of packing rectangles into bins which are unit squares. We give an on-line algorithm that uses at most 3.25 times the optimal number of bins. We also prove a result for the case when the items to be packed are squares and discuss extensions to higher dimensions.