A probabilistic analysis is presented of the Next Fit Decreasing bin packing heuristic, in which bins are opened to accomodate the items in order of decreasing size.

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doi.org/10.1016/0167-6377(86)90013-1, hdl.handle.net/1765/11645
Operations Research Letters
Erasmus School of Economics

Csirik, J., Galambos, G., Frenk, H., Frieze, A. M., & Rinnooy Kan, A. (1986). A probabilistic analysis of the next fit decreasing bin packing heuristic. Operations Research Letters, 5(5), 233–236. doi:10.1016/0167-6377(86)90013-1