On some packing problem related to dynamic storage allocation

Marek Chrobák, Maciej Ślusarek

RAIRO - Theoretical Informatics and Applications · 1988 · 83 citations · 6 references

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We consider the problem of packing rectangles of height 1 when the x-coordinates of their left and right edges are specified. In the off-line case the optimal solution can be trivially found in polynomial time. In the on-line case no algorithm can have performance ratio better than 3. A connection between this problem and dynamic storage allocation is shown.

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