Open-end bin packing: new and old analysis approaches

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DOI10.1016/J.DAM.2022.07.003zbMATH Open1500.90056arXiv2105.05923OpenAlexW3161015378MaRDI QIDQ2172402FDOQ2172402


Authors: Leah Epstein Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 15 September 2022

Published in: Discrete Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We analyze a recently introduced concept, called the price of clustering, for variants of bin packing called open-end bin packing problems (OEBP). Input items have sizes, and they also belong to a certain number of types. The new concept deals with the comparison of optimal solutions for the cases where items of distinct types can and cannot be packed together, respectively. The problem is related to greedy bin packing algorithms and to batched bin packing, and we discuss some of those concepts as well. We analyze max-OEBP, where a packed bin is valid if by excluding its largest item, the total size of items is below 1. For this variant, we study the case of general item sizes, and the parametric case with bounded item sizes, which shows the effect of small items. Finally, we briefly discuss min-OEBP, where a bin is valid if the total size of its items excluding the smallest item is below 1, which is known to be an entirely different problem.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.05923




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