This paper deals with a particular “packing” problem, namely the two dimensional strip packing problem, where a finite set of objects have to be located in a strip of fixed width and infinite height. The variant studied here considers regular items (they are rectangular to be more precise) that must be packed without overlap, rotations being not allowed. The objective is to minimize the height ...

In this paper we study the Multiple Strip Packing (MSP) problem, a generalization of the well-known Strip Packing problem. For a given set of rectangles, r1, . . . , rn, with heights and widths ≤ 1, the goal is to find a non-overlapping orthogonal packing without rotations into k ∈ N strips [0, 1]× [0,∞), minimizing the maximum of the heights. We present an approximation algorithm with absolute...

The irregular strip packing problem asks to place a set of polygons within a rectangular strip of fixed height without overlap, so as to minimize the strip width required. We consider an overlap minimization problem which minimizes the amount of overlap penalty for all pairs of polygons within a given bound of strip width. We propose a local search algorithm which translates a polygon in horizo...

This paper presents a greedy randomized adaptive search procedure (GRASP) for the strip packing problem, which is the problem of placing a set of rectangular pieces into a strip of a given width and infinite length so as to minimize the required length. We investigate several strategies for the constructive and improvement phases and several choices for critical search parameters. We perform ex...

We study two related problems in non-preemptive scheduling and packing of malleable tasks with precedence constraints to minimize the makespan. We distinguish the scheduling variant, in which we allow the free choice of processors, and the packing variant, in which a task must be assigned to a contiguous subset of processors. For precedence constraints of bounded width, we completely resolve th...

We present and contrast several efficient two-dimensional packing algorithms for specified aspect ratio. These near-linear algorithms are based on strip packing, tiling, and alternate-bisection methodologies and can be used in the layout of disconnected objects in graph visualization. The parameters that affect the performance of these algorithms as well as the circumstances under which they pe...

We present approximation algorithms for the twoand three-dimensional bin packing problems and the three-dimensional strip packing problem. We consider the special case of these problems in which a parameter (a positive integer) is given, indicating that each of the dimensions of the items to be packed is at most of the corresponding dimension of the recipient. We analyze the asymptotic performa...