Packing Squares with Profits

  • Authors:
  • Klaus Jansen;Roberto Solis-Oba

  • Affiliations:
  • kj@informatik.uni-kiel.de;solis@csd.uwo.ca

  • Venue:
  • SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2012

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.00

Visualization

Abstract

We study the following square packing problem: Given a set $Q$ of squares with positive profits, the goal is to pack a subset of $Q$ into a rectangular bin $\mathcal R$ so that the total profit of the squares packed in $\mathcal R$ is maximized. Squares must be packed so that their sides are parallel to those of $\mathcal R$. We present a polynomial time approximation scheme for the problem, which for any value $\epsilon 0$ finds and packs a subset $Q' \subseteq Q$ of profit at least $(1-\epsilon) OPT$, where $OPT$ is the profit of an optimum solution.