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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

This paper derives polynomial-time approximation schemes for several NP-hard stochastic optimization problems from the algorithmic mechanism design and operations research literatures. The problems we consider involve a principal or seller…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Robin Bowers , Marius Garbea , Emmanouil Pountourakis , Samuel Taggart

We study the knapsack problem with group fairness constraints. The input of the problem consists of a knapsack of bounded capacity and a set of items, each item belongs to a particular category and has and associated weight and value. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Deval Patel , Arindam Khan , Anand Louis

The multiple knapsack problem (MKP) generalizes the classical knapsack problem by assigning items to multiple knapsacks subject to capacity constraints. It is used to model many real-world resource allocation and scheduling problems. In…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Ishara Hewa Pathiranage , Aneta Neumann

A searcher is tasked with exploring a graph with edge lengths and vertex weights, starting from a designated vertex. Initially, only the starting vertex is considered explored. At each step, the searcher adds an edge to the solution,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Svenja M. Griesbach , Felix Hommelsheim , Max Klimm , Kevin Schewior

We study the Min-Weighted Sum Bin Packing problem, a variant of the classical Bin Packing problem in which items have a weight, and each item induces a cost equal to its weight multiplied by the index of the bin in which it is packed. This…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Guillaume Sagnol

We study a natural geometric variant of the classic Knapsack problem called 2D-Knapsack: we are given a set of axis-parallel rectangles and a rectangular bounding box, and the goal is to pack as many of these rectangles inside the box…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Michal Pilipczuk , Mathieu Mari , Timothe Picavet

We consider two well-known natural variants of bin packing, and show that these packing problems admit asymptotic fully polynomial time approximation schemes (AFPTAS). In bin packing problems, a set of one-dimensional items of size at most…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-02-16 Leah Epstein , Asaf Levin

This article presents a strongly polynomial-time algorithm for the general linear programming problem. This algorithm is an implicit reduction procedure that works as follows. Primal and dual problems are combined into a special system of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Samuel Awoniyi

This article presents a validation of a recently proposed strongly polynomial-time algorithm for the general linear programming problem. The proposed algorithm is an implicit reduction procedure that combines primal and dual linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Samuel Awoniyi

We study the uniform $2$-dimensional vector multiple knapsack (2VMK) problem, a natural variant of multiple knapsack arising in real-world applications such as virtual machine placement. The input for 2VMK is a set of items, each associated…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Tomer Cohen , Ariel Kulik , Hadas Shachnai

The structure of many real-world optimization problems includes minimization of a nonlinear (or quadratic) functional subject to bound and singly linear constraints (in the form of either equality or bilateral inequality) which are commonly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-05-19 Ruhollah Tavakoli

Submodular maximization is a classic algorithmic problem with multiple applications in data mining and machine learning; there, the growing need to deal with massive instances motivates the design of algorithms balancing the quality of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Georgios Amanatidis , Federico Fusco , Philip Lazos , Stefano Leonardi , Alberto Marchetti Spaccamela , Rebecca Reiffenhäuser

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

This paper introduces the Packing While Traveling problem as a new non-linear knapsack problem. Given are a set of cities that have a set of items of distinct profits and weights and a vehicle that may collect the items when visiting all…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-03-22 Sergey Polyakovskiy , Frank Neumann

The 0-1 Multidimensional Knapsack Problem (MKP) is a classical NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem with many engineering applications. In this paper, we propose a novel algorithm combining evolutionary computation with the exact…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Jitao Xu , Hongbo Li , Minghao Yin

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

The unbounded knapsack problem with bounded weights is a variant of the well-studied variant of the traditional binary knapsack problem; key changes being the relaxation of the binary constraint and allowing the unit weights of each item to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Michael Beyer , Steven Mills

The Consensus Clustering problem has been introduced as an effective way to analyze the results of different microarray experiments. The problem consists of looking for a partition that best summarizes a set of input partitions (each…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-07-13 Paola Bonizzoni , Gianluca Della Vedova , Riccardo Dondi

In multi-objective optimization, computing the entire non-dominated set (also known as the Pareto front or the Pareto frontier) is often intractable. However, for any multiplicative factor greater than one, an approximation set can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Levin Nemesch , Stefan Ruzika , Clemens Thielen , Alina Wittmann