Greedy algorithms for the minimization knapsack problem: Average behavior

  • Authors:
  • G. N. Diubin;A. A. Korbut

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute for Economics and Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia 191187;Institute for Economics and Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia 191187

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Computer and Systems Sciences International
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

A formal description of primal and dual greedy methods is given for a minimization version of the knapsack problem with Boolean variables. Relations of these methods to the corresponding methods for the maximization problem are shown. Average behavior of primal and dual methods for the minimization problem is studied. It is assumed that the coefficients of the objective function and the restriction are independent uniformly distributed on [0,1] random variables and that the right-hand side d is deterministic and proportional to the number of variables, i.e., d = μn. It is shown that for μ t/3 primal and dual greedy methods have an asymptotical accuracy t.