On-line grid-packing with a single active grid

  • Authors:
  • Satoshi Fujita

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Information Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, 739-8527, Japan

  • Venue:
  • Information Processing Letters
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

In this paper, we study the problem of packing rectangular items into a minimum number of square grids in an on-line manner with a single active grid, where the size of each grid is m × m for some positive integer m, and the height and the width of each item are positive integers smaller than or equal to m, respectively. We prove two elementary bounds on the asymptotic competitive ratio of an optimal on-line algorithm, that is at least 23/11 and at most (4/13)√m- o(√m). We then propose an on-line algorithm that achieves a competitive ratio O((log log m)2).