This side up!

Leah Epstein; Rob Van Stee

doi:10.1145/1150334.1150339

This side up!

Leah Epstein, Rob Van Stee

Department of Mathematics

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We consider two- and three-dimensional bin-packing problems where 90° rotations are allowed. We improve all known asymptotic performance bounds for these problems. In particular, we show how to combine ideas from strip packing and two-dimensional bin packing to give a new algorithm for the three-dimensional strip packing problem where boxes can only be rotated sideways. We propose to call this problem "This side up". Our algorithm has an asymptotic performance bound of 9/4.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	228-243
Number of pages	16
Journal	ACM Transactions on Algorithms
Volume	2
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1150334.1150339
State	Published - 2006

Keywords

Bin packing
Online algorithms
Rotations

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Mathematics (miscellaneous)

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