A fully polynomial approximation scheme for a knapsack problem with a minimum filling constraint

  • Authors:
  • Zhou Xu;Xiaofan Lai

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Logistics and Maritime Studies, Faculty of Business, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University;Dept. of Logistics and Maritime Studies, Faculty of Business, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

  • Venue:
  • WADS'11 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Algorithms and data structures
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

We study a variant of the knapsack problem, where a minimum filling constraint is imposed such that the total weight of selected items cannot be less than a given threshold. We consider the case when the ratio of the threshold to the capacity equals a given constant α with 0 ≤ α