New polynomial-time instances to various knapsack-type problems

  • Authors:
  • Isto Aho

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer and Information Sciences, FIN-33014 University of Tampere, Finland

  • Venue:
  • Fundamenta Informaticae
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

We describe a special case of the interactive knapsack optimization problem (motivated by the load clipping problem) solvable in polynomial time. Given an instance parameterized by k , the solution can be found in polynomial time, where the polynomial has degree k . In the interactive knapsack problem, k is connected to the length induced by an item. A similar construction solves a special case of the 0-1 multi-dimensional knapsack and the 0-1 linear integer programming problems in polynomial time. In these problems the parameter determines the width of the restriction matrix, which is a band matrix. We extend the 0-1 multi-dimensional knapsack solution to 0- n multi-dimensional knapsack problems (and to 0- n IP problems). Our algorithms are based on the (resource bounded) shortest path search: we represent restrictions efficiently in a form of a graph such that each feasible solution has a path between given source and target vertices.