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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

We study a discrete portfolio pricing problem that selects one price per product from a finite menu under margin and fairness constraints. To account for demand uncertainty, we incorporate a budgeted robust formulation that controls…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Zi Yuan Eric Shao

We address the classical knapsack problem and a variant in which an upper bound is imposed on the number of items that can be selected. We show that appropriate combinations of rounding techniques yield novel and powerful ways of rounding.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Monaldo Mastrolilli , Marcus Hutter

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

Knapsack and Subset Sum are fundamental NP-hard problems in combinatorial optimization. Recently there has been a growing interest in understanding the best possible pseudopolynomial running times for these problems with respect to various…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Adam Polak , Lars Rohwedder , Karol Węgrzycki

An unconstrained nonlinear binary optimization problem of selecting a maximum expected value subset of items is considered. Each item is associated with a profit and probability. Each of the items succeeds or fails independently with the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-06-23 Noam Goldberg , Gabor Rudolf

In the knapsack problems with neighborhood constraints that were studied before, the input is a graph $\mathcal{G}$ on a set $\mathcal{V}$ of items, each item $v \in \mathcal{V}$ has a weight $w_v$ and profit $p_v$, the size $s$ of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Palash Dey , Ashlesha Hota , Sudeshna Kolay

We study the three-dimensional Knapsack (3DK) problem, in which we are given a set of axis-aligned cuboids with associated profits and an axis-aligned cube knapsack. The objective is to find a non-overlapping axis-aligned packing (by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Klaus Jansen , Debajyoti Kar , Arindam Khan , K. V. N. Sreenivas , Malte Tutas

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

The stochastic knapsack problem is the stochastic variant of the classical knapsack problem in which the algorithm designer is given a a knapsack with a given capacity and a collection of items where each item is associated with a profit…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Anindya De

Binary Knapsack Problem (BKP) is to select a subset of an element (item) set with the highest value while keeping the total weight within the capacity of the knapsack. This paper presents an integer programming model for a variation of BKP…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-02-23 Davoud Mougouei , David M. W. Powers , Asghar Moeini

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

We consider a variant of bin packing called multiple-choice vector bin packing. In this problem we are given a set of items, where each item can be selected in one of several $D$-dimensional incarnations. We are also given $T$ bin types,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-05-14 Boaz Patt-Shamir , Dror Rawitz

In this paper, we study the stochastic unbounded min-knapsack problem ($\textbf{Min-SUKP}$). The ordinary unbounded min-knapsack problem states that: There are $n$ types of items, and there is an infinite number of items of each type. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Zhihao Jiang , Haoyu Zhao

We study a robust extensible bin packing problem with budgeted uncertainty, under a budgeted uncertainty model where item sizes are defined to lie in the intersection of a box with a one-norm ball. We propose a scenario generation algorithm…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Noam Goldberg , Michael Poss , Yariv Marmor

We consider a variant of the knapsack problem, where items are available with different possible weights. Using a separate budget for these item improvements, the question is: Which items should be improved to which degree such that the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-07-29 Marc Goerigk , Yogish Sabharwal , Anita Schöbel , Sandeep Sen

We consider a bilevel continuous knapsack problem where the leader controls the capacity of the knapsack and the follower chooses an optimal packing according to his own profits, which may differ from those of the leader. To this bilevel…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Christoph Buchheim , Dorothee Henke

We study the geometric knapsack problem in which we are given a set of $d$-dimensional objects (each with associated profits) and the goal is to find the maximum profit subset that can be packed non-overlappingly into a given…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Pritam Acharya , Sujoy Bhore , Aaryan Gupta , Arindam Khan , Bratin Mondal , Andreas Wiese

The disjunctively constrained knapsack problem consists in packing a subset of pairwisely compatible items in a capacity-constrained knapsack such that the total profit of the selected items is maximized while satisfying the knapsack…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Zequn Wei , Jin-Kao Hao

The Set-union Knapsack Problem (SUKP) is a generalization of the popular 0-1 knapsack problem. Given a set of weighted elements and a set of items with profits where each item is composed of a subset of elements, the SUKP involves packing a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Zequn Wei , Jin-Kao Hao