Copyright	Copyright (C) 2008-2011 John Goerzen
License	BSD3
Maintainer	John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>
Stability	provisional
Portability	portable
Safe Haskell	None
Language	Haskell98

Data.BinPacking

Description

Tools for packing into bins

Written by John Goerzen, jgoerzen@complete.org

This module is designed to solve this type of problem: Given a bunch of objects of varying sizes, what is the best possible way to pack them into fixed-size bins? This can be used, for instance, by the datapacker program to pack files onto CDs or DVDs; by manufacturing environments to pack physical items into physicl bins; etc.

A description of bin packing algorithms can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bin_packing_problem.

Synopsis

Documentation

type BinPacker = (Num size, Ord size, Show size, Show obj) => [size] -> [(size, obj)] -> Either (BinPackerError size obj) [[(size, obj)]] Source

The primary type for bin-packing functions.

These functions take a list of size of bins. If every bin is the same size, you can pass repeat binSize to pass an infinite list of bins if the same size. Any surplus bins will simply be ignored.

[size] is the sizes of bins
[(size, obj)] is the sizes and objects
result is Either error or results

data (Num size, Ord size, Show size, Show obj) => BinPackerError size obj Source

Potential errors returned as Left values by BinPacker functions. Calling show on this value will produce a nice error message suitable for display.

Constructors

BPTooFewBins [(size, obj)]	Ran out of bins; attached value is the list of objects that do not fit
BPSizeTooLarge size (size, obj)	Bin size1 exceeded by at least the given object and size
BPOther String	Other error

Instances

(Eq obj, Num size, Ord size, Show size, Show obj) => Eq (BinPackerError size obj) Source
Methods (==) :: BinPackerError size obj -> BinPackerError size obj -> Bool (/=) :: BinPackerError size obj -> BinPackerError size obj -> Bool
(Num size, Ord size, Read size, Read obj, Show size, Show obj) => Read (BinPackerError size obj) Source
Methods readsPrec :: Int -> ReadS (BinPackerError size obj) readList :: ReadS [BinPackerError size obj] readPrec :: ReadPrec (BinPackerError size obj) readListPrec :: ReadPrec [BinPackerError size obj]
(Num size, Ord size, Show size, Show obj) => Show (BinPackerError size obj) Source
Methods showsPrec :: Int -> BinPackerError size obj -> ShowS show :: BinPackerError size obj -> String showList :: [BinPackerError size obj] -> ShowS
(Num size, Ord size, Show size, Show obj) => Error (BinPackerError size obj) Source	Let us use this as part of the Either monad
Methods noMsg :: BinPackerError size obj strMsg :: String -> BinPackerError size obj

packByOrder :: BinPacker Source

Pack objects into bins, preserving order. Objects will be taken from the input list one by one, and added to each bin until the bin is full. Work will then proceed on the next bin. No attempt is made to optimize allocations to bins. This is the simplest and most naive bin-packing algorithm, but may not make very good use of bin space.

packLargeFirst :: BinPacker Source

Pack objects into bins. For each bin, start with the largest objects, and keep packing the largest object from the remainder until no object can be found to put in the bin. This is substantially more efficient than packByOrder, but requires sorting the input.