# Online Colored Bin Packing

@article{Bhm2014OnlineCB,
title={Online Colored Bin Packing},
author={Martin B{\"o}hm and Jir{\'i} Sgall and Pavel Vesel{\'y}},
journal={ArXiv},
year={2014},
volume={abs/1404.5548}
}
• Published 2014
• Mathematics, Computer Science
• ArXiv
In the Colored Bin Packing problem a sequence of items of sizes up to $$1$$ arrives to be packed into bins of unit capacity. Each item has one of $$c\ge 2$$ colors and an additional constraint is that we cannot pack two items of the same color next to each other in the same bin. The objective is to minimize the number of bins.

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