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A Ptas For The Uncertain Capacity Knapsack Problem, Matthew Dabney Dec 2010

A Ptas For The Uncertain Capacity Knapsack Problem, Matthew Dabney

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The standard NP-hard knapsack problem can be interpreted as a scheduling problem with n jobs with weights w1 . . .wn and processing times p1 . . . pn, where our goal is to order the jobs on a single machine so as to maximize the weight of all jobs completing prior to a known common deadline d. In this paper, we study the uncertain capacity knapsack problem (UCKP), a generalization of this problem in which the deadline d is not known with certainty, but rather is provided as a probability distribution, and our goal …