New pseudopolynomial complexity bounds for the bounded and other integer Knapsack related problems

  • Authors:
  • Arie Tamir

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Israel

  • Venue:
  • Operations Research Letters
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We consider the bounded integer knapsack problem (BKP) max@?"j"="1^np"jx"j, subject to: @?"j"="1^nw"jx"j@?C, and x"j@?{0,1,...,m"j},j=1,...,n. We use proximity results between the integer and the continuous versions to obtain an O(n^3W^2) algorithm for BKP, where W=max"j"="1","...","nw"j. The respective complexity of the unbounded case with m"j=~, for j=1,...,n, is O(n^2W^2). We use these results to obtain an improved strongly polynomial algorithm for the multicover problem with cyclical 1's and uniform right-hand side.