In this paper, we study the robustness over the cardinality variation for the knapsack problem. For the knapsack problem and a positive number α ≤ 1, we say that a feasible solution is α-robust if, for any positive integer k, it includes an α-approximation of the maximum k-knapsack solution, where a k-knapsack solution is a feasible solution that consists of at most k items. In this paper, we show that, for any ε > 0, the problem of deciding whether the knapsack problem admits a (ν + ε)-robust solution is weakly NP-hard, where ν denotes the rank quotient of the corresponding knapsack system. Since the knapsack problem always admits a ν-robust knapsack solution [7], this result provides a sharp border for the complexity of the robust knapsack problem. On the positive side, we show that a max-robust knapsack solution can be computed in pseudo-polynomial time, and present a fully polynomial time approximation scheme (FPTAS) for computing a max-robust knapsack solution. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.
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Kakimura, N., Makino, K., & Seimi, K. (2011). Computing knapsack solutions with cardinality robustness. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 7074 LNCS, pp. 693–702). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25591-5_71
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