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The "0-1 knapsack problem" stands as a classical combinatorial optimization conundrum, necessitating the selection of a subset of items from a given set. Each item possesses inherent values and weights, and the primary objective is to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Mohammad Saleh Vahdatpour

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

In this paper, we propose a robust optimization-based heuristic algorithm for the chance-constrained binary knapsack problem (CKP). We assume that the weights of items are independent normally distributed. By utilizing the properties of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-06 Seulgi Joung , Kyungsik Lee

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

We study the Colored Bin Packing Problem: we are given a set of items where each item has a weight and color. We must pack the items in bins of uniform capacity such that no two items of the same color may be adjacent within in a bin. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-09-01 Hamza Alsarhan , Davin Chia , Ananya Christman , Shannia Fu , Tony Jin

In this paper, a new upper bound for the Multiple Knapsack Problem (MKP) is proposed, based on the idea of relaxing MKP to a {\em Bounded Sequential Multiple Knapsack Problem}, i.e., a multiple knapsack problem in which item sizes are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-12 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

In the Colored Bin Packing problem a set of items with varying weights and colors must be packed into bins of uniform weight limit such that no two items of the same color may be packed adjacently within a bin. We solve this problem for the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-11-17 Hamza Alsarhan , Davin Chia , Ananya Christman , Shannia Fu , Yanfeng Jin

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

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

This work presents an empirical analysis of exact algorithms for the unbounded knapsack problem, which includes seven algorithms from the literature, two commercial solvers, and more than ten thousand instances. The terminating step-off, a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-03-22 Henrique Becker , Luciana S. Buriol

The Knapsack Problem (KP) and its generalization, the Bounded Knapsack Problem (BKP), are classical NP-hard problems with numerous practical applications, and despite being introduced over 25 years ago, the solvers COMBO and BOUKNAP remain…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Renan F. F. da Silva , Thiago A. de Queiroz , Rafael C. S. Schouery

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

Knapsack problems (KPs) are common in industry, but solving KPs is known to be NP-hard and has been tractable only at a relatively small scale. This paper examines KPs in a slightly generalized form and shows that they can be solved nearly…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-06 Xingwen Zhang , Feng Qi , Zhigang Hua , Shuang Yang

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

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

Obtaining strong linear relaxations of capacitated covering problems constitute a major technical challenge even for simple settings. For one of the most basic cases, the Knapsack-Cover (Min-Knapsack) problem, the relaxation based on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Andrés Fielbaum , Ignacio Morales , José Verschae

The Travelling Thief Problem (TTP) is a challenging combinatorial optimization problem that attracts many scholars. The TTP interconnects two well-known NP-hard problems: the Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP) and the 0-1 Knapsack Problem…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Lei Yang , Zitong Zhang , Xiaotian Jia , Peipei Kang , Wensheng Zhang , Dongya Wang

We study an extension of the cardinality-constrained knapsack problem wherein each item has a concave piecewise linear utility structure (CCKP), which is motivated by applications such as resource management problems in monitoring and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Miao Bai , Carlos Cardonha

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