Improved results for a memory allocation problem

dc.creatorEpstein, Leah
dc.creatorvan Stee, Rob
dc.date2006-12-20
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T07:36:15Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T07:36:15Z
dc.descriptionWe consider a memory allocation problem that can be modeled as a version of bin packing where items may be split, but each bin may contain at most two (parts of) items. A 3/2-approximation algorithm and an NP-hardness proof for this problem was given by Chung et al. We give a simpler 3/2-approximation algorithm for it which is in fact an online algorithm. This algorithm also has good performance for the more general case where each bin may contain at most k parts of items. We show that this general case is also strongly NP-hard. Additionally, we give an efficient 7/5-approximation algorithm.
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0612100
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0612100
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/120360
dc.subjectData Structures and Algorithms
dc.subjectF.2.2
dc.titleImproved results for a memory allocation problem
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