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Discrete Applied Mathematics

Volume 45, Issue 3, 7 September 1993, Pages 197-204
Discrete Applied Mathematics

Two-dimensional rectangle packing: on-line methods and results

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Abstract

The first algorithms for the on-line two-dimensional rectangle packing problem were introduced by Coppersmith and Raghavan. They showed that for a family of heuristics 13/4 is an upper bound for the asymptotic worst-case ratios. We have investigated the Next Fit and the First Fit variants of their method. We proved that the asymptotic worst-case ratio equals 13/4 for the Next Fit variant and that 49/16 is an upper bound of the asymptotic worst-case ratio for the First Fit variant.

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On leave from the Department of Computer Science, University of Szeged.

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Fellow of the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management, Brussels.