Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4958870 | Computers & Operations Research | 2018 | 13 Pages |
Abstract
We consider a generalization of the knapsack problem in which items are partitioned into classes, each characterized by a fixed cost and capacity. We study three alternative Integer Linear Programming formulations. For each formulation, we design an efficient algorithm to compute the linear programming relaxation (one of which is based on Column Generation techniques). We theoretically compare the strength of the relaxations and derive specific results for a relevant case arising in benchmark instances from the literature. Finally, we embed the algorithms above into a unified implicit enumeration scheme which is run in parallel with an improved Dynamic Programming algorithm to effectively solve the problem to proven optimality. An extensive computational analysis shows that our new exact algorithm is capable of efficiently solving all the instances of the literature and turns out to be the best algorithm for instances with a low number of classes.
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Authors
Fabio Furini, Michele Monaci, Emiliano Traversi,