Abstract: The knapsack problem is an NP-complete problem. Its resolution for large-scale instances requires prohibitive processing time. Lots of algorithms are proposed, but none is based on the ...

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Abstract: The 0-1 Knapsack Problem (KP) and Bin Packing Problem (BPP) are NP-hard combinatorial optimization challenges often tackled using metaheuristics. Both problems have prominent utilization in ...

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.

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