Approximation algorithms for a hierarchically structured bin packing problem

نویسندگان

  • Bruno Codenotti
  • Gianluca De Marco
  • Mauro Leoncini
  • Manuela Montangero
  • Massimo Santini
چکیده

In this paper we study a variant of the bin packing problem in which the items to be packed are structured as the leaves of a tree. The problem is motivated by document organization and retrieval. We show that the problem is NP-hard and we give approximation algorithms for the general case and for the particular case in which all the items have the same size.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Inf. Process. Lett.

دوره 89  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2004