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New Bounds for Multidimensional Packing

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New upper and lower bounds are presented for a multidimensional generalization of bin packing called box packing. Several variants of this problem, including bounded space box packing, square packing, variable-sized box packing and resource augmented box packing are also studied. The main results, stated for d=2 , are as follows: a new upper bound of 2.66013 for online box packing, a new 14/9 + ɛ polynomial time offline approximation algorithm for square packing, a new upper bound of 2.43828 for online square packing, a new lower bound of 1.62176 for online square packing, a new lower bound of 2.28229 for bounded space online square packing and a new upper bound of 2.32571 for online two-sized box packing.

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Seiden, van Stee New Bounds for Multidimensional Packing. Algorithmica 36, 261–293 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00453-003-1016-7

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