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Archibald, ThomasW., Bokkers, MennoB., Dekker, R. and Van Vliet, A. (1999). Minimizing bins in transmission systems European Journal of Operational Research, 115(2):380--391.

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This paper deals with the problem of minimizing the transmission cost in an EDI system and proves the optimality of a policy which minimizes the slack of partial sums under conditions with practical interpretations. This policy is shown to be useful as a heuristic in more general cases.