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We study the incremental knapsack problem, where one wishes to sequentially pack items into a knapsack whose capacity expands over a finite planning horizon, with the objective of maximizing time-averaged profits. While various…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Ali Aouad , Danny Segev

Benchmark instances for the unbounded knapsack problem are typically generated according to specific criteria within a given constant range $R$, and these instances can be referred to as the unbounded knapsack problem with bounded…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Yang Yang

Computing sets of high quality solutions has gained increasing interest in recent years. In this paper, we investigate how to obtain sets of optimal solutions for the classical knapsack problem. We present an algorithm to count exactly the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Jakob Bossek , Aneta Neumann , Frank Neumann

The 0/1 knapsack problem is weakly NP-hard in that there exist pseudo-polynomial time algorithms based on dynamic programming that can solve it exactly. There are also the core branch and bound algorithms that can solve large randomly…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Shalin Shah

The submodular knapsack problem (SKP), which seeks to maximize a submodular set function by selecting a subset of elements within a given budget, is an important discrete optimization problem. The majority of existing approaches to solving…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Yimin Hao , Yi Zhou , Chao Xu , Zhang-Hua Fu

One of the most fundamental problems in Computer Science is the Knapsack problem. Given a set of n items with different weights and values, it asks to pick the most valuable subset whose total weight is below a capacity threshold T. Despite…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-16 Kyriakos Axiotis , Christos Tzamos

The online knapsack problem is a classic problem in the field of online algorithms. Its canonical version asks how to pack items of different values and weights arriving online into a capacity-limited knapsack so as to maximize the total…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Adam Lechowicz , Rik Sengupta , Bo Sun , Shahin Kamali , Mohammad Hajiesmaili

We show for several computational problems how classical greedy algorithms for special cases can be derived in a simple way from dynamic programs for the general case: interval scheduling (restricted to unit weights), knapsack (restricted…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Dieter van Melkebeek

We introduce and study a novel generalization of the classical Knapsack Problem (KP), called the Colored Knapsack Problem (CKP). In this problem, the items are partitioned into classes of colors and the packed items need to be ordered such…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-13 Fabio Ciccarelli , Alexander Helber , Erik Mühmer

We introduce the Online Unbounded Knapsack Problem with Removal, a variation of the well-known Online Knapsack Problem. Items, each with a weight and value, arrive online and an algorithm must decide on whether or not to pack them into a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Matthias Gehnen , Moritz Stocker

The online knapsack problem is a classic online resource allocation problem in networking and operations research. Its basic version studies how to pack online arriving items of different sizes and values into a capacity-limited knapsack.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Bo Sun , Lin Yang , Mohammad Hajiesmaili , Adam Wierman , John C. S. Lui , Don Towsley , Danny H. K. Tsang

In the knapsack problem, we are given a knapsack of some capacity and a set of items, each with a size and a value. The goal is to pack a selection of these items fitting the knapsack that maximizes the total value. The online version of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Hans-Joachim Böckenhauer , Fabian Frei , Peter Rossmanith

The min-knapsack problem with compactness constraints extends the classical knapsack problem, in the case of ordered items, by introducing a restriction ensuring that they cannot be too far apart. This problem has applications in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-28 Hubert Villuendas , Mathieu Besançon , Jérôme Malick

A variant of the classical knapsack problem is considered in which each item is associated with an integer weight and a qualitative level. We define a dominance relation over the feasible subsets of the given item set and show that this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Luca E. Schäfer , Tobias Dietz , Maria Barbati , José Rui Figueira , Salvatore Greco , Stefan Ruzika

The quantum statistics mechanism is very powerful for investigating the equilibrium states and the phase transitions in complex spin disorder systems. The spin disorder systems act as an interdisciplinary platform for solving the optimum…

General Physics · Physics 2025-06-17 Zhidong Zhang

The knapsack problem is a classic optimisation problem that has been recently extended in the setting of groups. Its study reveals to be interesting since it provides many different behaviours, depending on the considered class of groups.…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2016-12-15 Thibault Godin

Evolutionary algorithms have been widely used for a range of stochastic optimization problems in order to address complex real-world optimization problems. We consider the knapsack problem where the profits involve uncertainties. Such a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Aneta Neumann , Yue Xie , Frank Neumann

The knapsack problem is one of the classical problems in combinatorial optimization: Given a set of items, each specified by its size and profit, the goal is to find a maximum profit packing into a knapsack of bounded capacity. In the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Susanne Albers , Arindam Khan , Leon Ladewig

The stochastic knapsack has been used as a model in wide ranging applications from dynamic resource allocation to admission control in telecommunication. In recent years, a variation of the model has become a basic tool in studying problems…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2008-12-02 Grace Lin , Yingdong Lu , David Yao

Decades of research on the 0-1 knapsack problem led to very efficient algorithms that are able to quickly solve large problem instances to optimality. This prompted researchers to also investigate whether relatively small problem instances…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Jorik Jooken , Pieter Leyman , Patrick De Causmaecker
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