knapsack problems

A form of knapsack problem — A problem in combinatorial optimization: given a set of items, each with a weight and a value, determine which items to include in the collection so that the total weight is less than or equal to a given limit and the total value is as large as possible.

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noun
  1. pluralplural of knapsack problem.
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