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Arc-flow Formulation for Multiple-choice Vector Bin Packing

Brandão, F. and Pedroso, J. P. (2013). Multiple-choice Vector Bin Packing: Arc-flow Formulation with Graph Compression.
Technical Report DCC-2013-13, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, Portugal.

Technical Report (PDF) (also available at arXiv:1312.3836)

Abstract

The vector bin packing problem (VBP) is a generalization of bin packing with multiple constraints. In this problem we are required to pack items, represented by p-dimensional vectors, into as few bins as possible. The multiple-choice vector bin packing (MVBP) is a variant of the VBP in which bins have several types and items have several incarnations. We present an exact method, based on an arc-flow formulation with graph compression, for solving MVBP by simply representing all the patterns in a very compact graph. As a proof of concept we report computational results on a variable-sized bin packing data set.

BibTeX

@TechReport{MultipleChoiceVBP,
    author = {Brand\~ao, Filipe and Pedroso, J. P.},
    title = {{Multiple-choice Vector Bin Packing: Arc-flow Formulation with Graph Compression}},
    type = {Technical Report},
    number = {DCC-2013-13},
    institution = {Faculdade de Ci\^encias da Universidade do Porto},
    address = {Portugal},
    year = {2013},
}

Arc-flow Formulation for Multiple-choice Vector Bin Packing

Abstract

BibTeX

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