Journal of the Operations Research Society of China ›› 2021, Vol. 9 ›› Issue (3): 713-721.doi: 10.1007/s40305-020-00298-6

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The Continuous Knapsack Problem with Capacities

Huynh Duc Quoc1, Nguyen Chi Tam1, Tran Hoai Ngoc Nhan2   

  1. 1 Department of Mathematics, College of Natural Science, Can Tho University, Can Tho City 900900, Vietnam;
    2 Faculty of Basic Sciences, Vinh Long University of Technology Education, Vinh Long 940000, Vietnam
  • Received:2019-08-10 Revised:2020-03-04 Online:2021-09-30 Published:2021-09-26
  • Contact: Nguyen Chi Tam,nctamctu@gmail.com;Huynh Duc Quoc,hdquoc@ctu.edu.vn;Tran Hoai Ngoc Nhan,tranhoaingocnhan@gmail.com E-mail:nctamctu@gmail.com;hdquoc@ctu.edu.vn;tranhoaingocnhan@gmail.com

Abstract: We address a variant of the continuous knapsack problem, where capacities regarding costs of items are given into account. We prove that the problem is NP-complete although the classical continuous knapsack problem is solvable in linear time. For the case that there exists exactly one capacity for all items, we solve the corresponding problem in O(n log n) time, where n is the number of items.

Key words: Knapsack problem, Complexity, Capacity, Polynomially solvable

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