The unbounded knapsack problem: given a knapsack of some capacity and a set of items that have a weight and a value, determine the maximum value of items you can place in your knapsack. The number of ...

Operations Research, Vol. 45, No. 5 (Sep. - Oct., 1997), pp. 758-767 (10 pages) Several types of large-sized 0-1 Knapsack Problems (KP) may be easily solved, but in such cases most of the ...

We describe an algorithm for the 0-1 knapsack problem (KP), which relies mainly on three new ideas. The first one is to focus on what we call the core of the problem, namely, a knapsack problem ...

The "knapsack problem" is a widespread computing challenge—and no, it doesn't have to do just with literal backpacks. golubovy / iStock Imagine you’re a thief robbing a museum exhibit of tantalizing ...