 
                                                                                | Article ID: | iaor20106145 | 
| Volume: | 179 | 
| Issue: | 1 | 
| Start Page Number: | 187 | 
| End Page Number: | 202 | 
| Publication Date: | Sep 2010 | 
| Journal: | Annals of Operations Research | 
| Authors: | Rebai Abdelwaheb, Jarboui Bassem, Ibrahim Saber | 
| Keywords: | packing | 
In this paper, we present a new lower bounding scheme for the one-dimensional bin packing problem based on a destructive approach and we prove its effectiveness to solve hard instances. Performance comparison to other available lower bounds shows the effectiveness of our proposed lower bounds.