There is no EPTAS for two-dimensional knapsack
In the d-dimensional ( vector) knapsack problem given is a set of items, each having a d-dimensional size vector and a profit, and a d-dimensional bin. The goal is to select a subset of the items of maximum total profit such that the sum of all vectors is bounded by the bin capacity in each dimensio...
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| Vydáno v: | Information processing letters Ročník 110; číslo 16; s. 707 - 710 |
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| Médium: | Journal Article |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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Amsterdam
Elsevier B.V
31.07.2010
Elsevier Elsevier Sequoia S.A |
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| ISSN: | 0020-0190, 1872-6119 |
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| Shrnutí: | In the
d-dimensional (
vector)
knapsack problem given is a set of items, each having a
d-dimensional size vector and a profit, and a
d-dimensional bin. The goal is to select a subset of the items of maximum total profit such that the sum of all vectors is bounded by the bin capacity in each dimension. It is well known that, unless
P
=
NP
, there is no
fully polynomial-time approximation scheme for
d-dimensional knapsack, already for
d
=
2
. The best known result is a
polynomial-time approximation scheme (
PTAS) due to Frieze and Clarke [A.M. Frieze, M. Clarke, Approximation algorithms for the
m-dimensional 0–1 knapsack problem: worst-case and probabilistic analyses, European J. Operat. Res. 15 (1) (1984) 100–109] for the case where
d
⩾
2
is some fixed constant. A fundamental open question is whether the problem admits an
efficient PTAS (
EPTAS).
In this paper we resolve this question by showing that there is no EPTAS for
d-dimensional knapsack, already for
d
=
2
, unless
W
[
1
]
=
FPT
. Furthermore, we show that unless all problems in SNP are solvable in sub-exponential time, there is no approximation scheme for two-dimensional knapsack whose running time is
f
(
1
/
ε
)
|
I
|
o
(
1
/
ε
)
, for any function
f. Together, the two results suggest that a significant improvement over the running time of the scheme of Frieze and Clarke is unlikely to exist. |
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| Bibliografie: | SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-1 content type line 14 ObjectType-Article-2 content type line 23 |
| ISSN: | 0020-0190 1872-6119 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.ipl.2010.05.031 |