A New and Improved Algorithm for Online Bin Packing

We revisit the classic online bin packing problem studied in the half-century. In this problem, items of positive sizes no larger than 1 are presented one by one to be packed into subsets called bins of total sizes no larger than 1, such that every item is assigned to a bin before the next item is p...

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Bibliográfiai részletek
Szerzők: Balogh János
Békési József
Dósa György
Epstein Leah
Levin Asaf
Dokumentumtípus: Könyv része
Megjelent: Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik Schloss Dagstuhl 2018
Sorozat:26th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2018)
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doi:10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2018.5

mtmt:3407860
Online Access:http://publicatio.bibl.u-szeged.hu/28447
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