Getting design and engineering teams on the same page about what digital product to create and how to build it continues to be a challenge. A lot of companies find themselves dealing with scattered ...

Abstract: The knapsack problem is a classic NP-hard optimization challenge with wide-ranging applications in computer science, such as resource allocation. While several variants have been developed, ...

A Python implementation of a branch-and-bound approach (plus a simple greedy heuristic) to solve a variation of the multiple knapsack problem where items have both individual and pairwise benefits.

Problem Statement Given a set of items, each with a weight and a value, determine the number of each item to include in a collection so that the total weight is less than or equal to a given limit and ...

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We consider situations in which a decision-maker with a fixed budget faces a sequence of options, each with a cost and a value, and must select a subset of them online so as to maximize the total ...