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

The Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol. 55, No. 7, Part Special Issue: Local Search (Jul., 2004), pp. 705-716 (12 pages) The Bin Packing Problem and the Cutting Stock Problem are two ...

We consider the famous bin packing problem where a set of items must be stored in bins of equal capacity. In the classical version, the objective is to minimize the number of bins used. Motivated by ...