In this paper, we consider a two-dimensional version of the on-line bin packing problem, in which each rectangular item that should be packed into unit square bins is “rotatable” by 90 ◦ . Two on-line algorithms for solving the problem are proposed. The second algorithm is an extension of the 2rst algorithm, and the worst-case ratio of the second one is at least 2.25 and at most 2.565. c © 2002...

One of the main issues in addressing three-dimensional packing problems is finding an efficient and accurate definition of the points where to place the items inside the bins. The performance of exact and heuristic methods is actually strongly influenced by the choice of a placement rule. We introduce the Extreme Point concept and present a new Extreme Point-based rule for packing items inside ...

In this paper, we study 1-space bounded multi-dimensional bin packing and hypercube packing. A sequence of items arrive over time, each item is a d-dimensional hyperbox (in bin packing) or hypercube (in hypercube packing), and the length of each side is no more than 1. These items must be packed without overlapping into d-dimensional hypercubes with unit length on each side. In d-dimensional sp...

In this paper, we study the d-dimensional dynamic bin packing problem for general ddimensional boxes, for d ≥ 2. This problem is a generalization of the bin packing problem in which items may arrive and depart dynamically. Our main result is a 3-competitive online algorithm. We further study the 2and 3-dimensional problem closely and improve the competitive ratios. Technically speaking, our d-d...