TY - JOUR

T1 - A Class of Simple Stochastic Online Bin Packing Algorithms

AU - Hoffmann, Ulrich

PY - 1982/9/1

Y1 - 1982/9/1

N2 - In the one-dimensional bin packing problem a list of n items has to be packed into a minimum number of unit-capacity bins. A class of linear online algorithms for the approximate solution of bin packing with items drawn from a known probability distribution is presented. Each algorithm depends on the distribution and on a parameter controlling the performance of the algorithm. It is shown that with increasing number of items the expected performance ratio has an arbitrary small deviation from optimum.

AB - In the one-dimensional bin packing problem a list of n items has to be packed into a minimum number of unit-capacity bins. A class of linear online algorithms for the approximate solution of bin packing with items drawn from a known probability distribution is presented. Each algorithm depends on the distribution and on a parameter controlling the performance of the algorithm. It is shown that with increasing number of items the expected performance ratio has an arbitrary small deviation from optimum.

KW - Informatics

KW - AMS Subject Classifications: 68C25

KW - approximation algorithms

KW - Bin packing

KW - stochastic algorithms

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U2 - 10.1007/BF02241699

DO - 10.1007/BF02241699

M3 - Journal articles

VL - 29

SP - 227

EP - 239

JO - Computing

JF - Computing

SN - 0010-485X

IS - 3

ER -