A fully polynomial approximation scheme for a knapsack problem with a minimum filling constraint (extended abstract)

Abstract

We study a variant of the knapsack problem, where a minimum filling constraint is imposed such that the total weight of selected items cannot be less than a given threshold. We consider the case when the ratio of the threshold to the capacity equals a given constant α with 0 ≤ α < 1. For any such constant α, since finding an optimal solution is NP-hard, we develop the first FPTAS for the problem, which has a time complexity polynomial in 1/(1 - α). © 2011 Springer-Verlag.