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Solving knapsack and related problems
Author

Daniel Lichtblau
Organization: Wolfram Research, Inc.
Conference

IMS 2004
Conference location

Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada
Description

An extended version of a paper from IMS 2004, Banff.

Abstract:
Knapsack problems and variants thereof arise in several different fields from operations research to cryptography to really, really serious problems for hard-core puzzle enthusiasts. We discuss some of these and show ways in which one might formulate and solve them using Mathematica.
Subjects

*Applied Mathematics > Optimization
*Mathematics > Recreational Mathematics
Keywords

knapsack problems, integer programming, discrete optimization
URL

http://ims2004.cpsc.ucalgary.ca
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