On a discrete nonlinear and nonseparable knapsack problem

  • Authors:
  • T. D. Klastorin

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Management Science, 126 Mackenzie Hall, DJ-10, Schools of Business, University of Washington 98195, USA

  • Venue:
  • Operations Research Letters
  • Year:
  • 1990

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Abstract

In this paper, a discrete knapsack problem with a convex but nonseparable objective function is considered. Relaxing the discrete requirements (and assuming nonnegativity), we show how the resulting problem can be solved by an efficient algorithm which solves a series of quadratic knapsack problems in O(n) time. This algorithm forms the basis for a branch-and-bound algorithm, which is subsequently used to test the efficacy of a proposed heuristic. Computational results are presented.