Bin packing problems are a class of NP-hard combinatorial optimisation challenges with wide-ranging applications in logistics, manufacturing, cloud computing and scheduling.

We show that some of the best heuristics developed for the classical bin packing problem can perform poorly under the general cost structure. On the other hand, the so-called next-fit increasing ...

Given a set of rectangular pieces to be cut from an unlimited number of standardized stock pieces (bins), the Two-Dimensional Finite Bin Packing Problem is to determine the minimum number of stock ...

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