The 0/1 knapsack problem is a well-known problem, which appears in many real domains with practical importance. The problem is NP-complete. The multiobjective 0/1 knapsack problem is a generalization of the 0/1 knapsack problem in which multiple knapsacks are considered. Many algorithms have been proposed in the past five decades for both single and multiobjective knapsack problems. A new versi...

In the knapsack problem, you are given a knapsack of size B ∈ Z and a set S = {a1, . . . , an} of objects with corresponding sizes and profits s(ai) ∈ Z and p(ai) ∈ Z. The goal is to find the optimal subset of objects whose total size is bounded by B and has the maximum possible total profit. This problem is also sometimes called the 0/1 knapsack problem because each object must be either in th...

The submodular knapsack set is the discrete lower level set of a submodular function. The modular case reduces to the classical linear 0-1 knapsack set. One motivation for studying the submodular knapsack polytope is to address 0-1 programming problems with uncertain coefficients. Under various assumptions, a probabilistic constraint on 0-1 variables can be modeled as a submodular knapsack set....

In this paper, we propose two algorithms to improve the Merkle-Hellman knapsack public-key cryptosystem. First, we propose an approach to transform a superincreasing sequence to a " high den-sity'' knapsack sequence. The algorithm is easy to implement and eliminates the redundancy of many knapsack cryptosystems. Second, a linearly shift method is used to improve the security of the knapsack pub...

The submodular knapsack set is the discrete lower level set of a submodular function. The modular case reduces to the classical linear 0-1 knapsack set. One motivation for studying the submodular knapsack polytope is to address 0-1 programming problems with uncertain coefficients. Under various assumptions, a probabilistic constraint on 0-1 variables can be modeled as a submodular knapsack set....

The (offline) maximization (resp., minimization) knapsack problem is given a set of items with weights and sizes, and the capacity of a knapsack, to maximize (resp., minimize) the total weight of selected items under the constraint that the total size of the selected items is at most (resp., at least) the capacity of the knapsack. In this paper, we study online maximization and minimization kna...

This paper introduces a knapsack cryptosystem based on the problem of discrete logarithm. The proposed algorithm obtains the public knapsack values by finding the discrete logarithms of the secret knapsack ones. Also, it encrypts the message block by obtaining its binary bits and then computing the modular multiplication of the public knapsack values corresponding to the 1-bits of the binary fo...

We introduce methods to count and enumerate all maximal independent, all maximum independent sets, and all independent sets in threshold graphs and k-threshold graphs. Within threshold graphs and k-threshold graphs independent sets correspond to feasible solutions in related knapsack instances. We give several characterizations for knapsack instances and multidimensional knapsack instances whic...