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Quadratic multiple knapsack problem (QMKP) is a combinatorial optimisation problem characterised by multiple weight capacity constraints and a profit function that combines linear and quadratic profits. We study a stochastic variant of this…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Kokila Kasuni Perera , Aneta Neumann

The 0-1 knapsack problem is a well-known combinatorial optimisation problem. Approximation algorithms have been designed for solving it and they return provably good solutions within polynomial time. On the other hand, genetic algorithms…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-04-04 Jun He , Feidun He , Hongbin Dong

The knapsack problem (KP) is a very famous NP-hard problem in combinatorial optimization. Also its generalization to multiple dimensions named d-dimensional knapsack problem (d-KP) and to multiple knapsacks named multiple knapsack problem…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-11-24 Carolin Albrecht , Frank Gurski , Jochen Rethmann , Eda Yilmaz

We are given n base elements and a finite collection of subsets of them. The size of any subset varies between p to k (p < k). In addition, we assume that the input contains all possible subsets of size p. Our objective is to find a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-06-09 Asaf Levin , Uri Yovel

The maximum k-plex problem is a computationally complex problem, which emerged from graph-theoretic social network studies. This paper presents an effective hybrid local search for solving the maximum k-plex problem that combines the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Yan Jin , John H. Drake , Una Benlic , Kun He

The Sequential Multiple Knapsack Problem is a special case of Multiple knapsack problem in which the items sizes are divisible. A characterization of the optimal solutions of the problem and a description of the convex hull of all the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-06-13 Paolo Detti

The Unbounded Knapsack Problem (UKP) is a well-known variant of the famous 0-1 Knapsack Problem (0-1 KP). In contrast to 0-1 KP, an arbitrary number of copies of every item can be taken in UKP. Since UKP is NP-hard, fully polynomial time…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-11-10 Klaus Jansen , Stefan Erich Julius Kraft

Packing problems are an important class of optimization problems. The probably most well-known problem if this type is knapsack and many generalizations of it have been studied in the literature like Two-dimensional Geometric Knapsack…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Tobias Mömke , Andreas Wiese

We consider the 0-1 Penalized Knapsack Problem (PKP). Each item has a profit, a weight and a penalty and the goal is to maximize the sum of the profits minus the greatest penalty value of the items included in a solution. We propose an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-02-15 Federico Della Croce , Ulrich Pferschy , Rosario Scatamacchia

This paper examines knapsack auctions as a method to solve the knapsack problem with incomplete information, where object values are private and sizes are public. We analyze three auction types-uniform price (UP), discriminatory price (DP),…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Peyman Khezr , Vijay Mohan , Lionel Page

Solving combinatorial optimization problems is a promising application area for quantum algorithms in real-world scenarios. In this work, we extend the "Quantum Tree Generator" (QTG), previously proposed for the 0-1 Knapsack Problem, to the…

Our research deals with the optimization version of the set partition problem, where the objective is to minimize the absolute difference between the sums of the two disjoint partitions. Although this problem is known to be NP-hard and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Kaan Gokcesu , Hakan Gokcesu

In this paper the following selection problem is discussed. A set of $n$ items is given and we wish to choose a subset of exactly $p$ items of the minimum total cost. This problem is a special case of 0-1 knapsack in which all the item…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-08-15 Adam Kasperski , Pawel Zielinski

In this paper we consider the classical maximum set packing problem where set cardinality is upper bounded by $k$. We show how to design a variant of a polynomial-time local search algorithm with performance guarantee $(k+2)/3$. This local…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-02-19 Maxim Sviridenko , Justin Ward

Multi-objective optimisation is regarded as one of the most promising ways for dealing with constrained optimisation problems in evolutionary optimisation. This paper presents a theoretical investigation of a multi-objective optimisation…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-02-13 Jun He , Yong Wang , Yuren Zhou

The class PLS (Polynomial Local Search) captures the complexity of finding a solution that is locally optimal and has proven to be an important concept in the theory of local search. It has been shown that local search versions of various…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Yasuaki Kobayashi , Kazuhiro Kurita , Yutaro Yamaguchi

An instance of the multiperiod binary knapsack problem (MPBKP) is given by a horizon length $T$, a non-decreasing vector of knapsack sizes $(c_1, \ldots, c_T)$ where $c_t$ denotes the cumulative size for periods $1,\ldots,t$, and a list of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Zuguang Gao , John R. Birge , Varun Gupta

We consider the chance-constrained binary knapsack problem (CKP), where the item weights are independent and normally distributed. We introduce a continuous relaxation for the CKP, represented as a non-convex optimization problem, which we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-12 Junyoung Kim , Kyungsik Lee

The Quadratic Knapsack Problem (QKP) involves selecting a subset of elements that maximizes the sum of pairwise and singleton utilities without exceeding a given budget. The pairwise utilities are nonnegative, the singleton utilities may be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-10 Dorit S. Hochbaum , Philipp Baumann , Olivier Goldschmidt , Yiqing Zhang

The article presents an approach to interactively solve multi-objective optimization problems. While the identification of efficient solutions is supported by computational intelligence techniques on the basis of local search, the search is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2008-09-05 Martin Josef Geiger