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Semi-on-line bin packing: a short overview and a new lower bound

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Here we review the main results in the area of semi-on-line bin packing. Then we present a new lower bound for the asymptotic competitive ratio of any on-line bin packing algorithm which knows the optimum value in advance.

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The authors thank the anonymous referees for their valuable comments that contributed to improve the presentation of this paper. The authors thank Gábor Galambos for suggesting the problem.

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This study was supported by the by HSC-DAAD Hungarian-German Research Exchange Programme (Project P-MÖB/837) and Gyula Juhász Faculty of Education, University of Szeged (Project CS-001/2010).

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Balogh, J., Békési, J. Semi-on-line bin packing: a short overview and a new lower bound. Cent Eur J Oper Res 21, 685–698 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10100-012-0266-3

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