The unbounded knapsack problem: given a knapsack of some capacity and a set of items that have a weight and a value, determine the maximum value of items you can place in your knapsack. The number of ...

Management Science, Vol. 34, No. 3, Focussed Issue on Heuristics (Mar., 1988), pp. 402-410 (9 pages) A new approximate algorithm for multidimensional zero-one knapsack problems with all positive ...

This paper analyzes a heuristic for the knapsack problem that recursively determines a solution by making a variable with smallest marginal unit cost as large as possible. Recursive necessary and ...