• Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.127-130
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• 1991

The multi-divisional knapsack problem is defined as a binary knapsack problem where each of mutually exclusive divisions has its own capacity. We consider the relaxed LP problem and develop a transformation which converts the multi-divisional linear knapsack problem into smaller size linear knapsack problems. Solution procedures and a numerical example are presented.

• Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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• v.40 no.4
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• pp.396-403
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• 2014

The multi-divisional knapsack problem is defined as a binary knapsack problem where each mutually exclusive division has its own capacity. In this paper, we present an extension of the multi-divisional knapsack problem that has generalized multiple-choice constraints. We explore the linear programming relaxation (P) of this extended problem and identify some properties of problem (P). Then, we develop a transformation which converts the problem (P) into an LP knapsack problem and derive the optimal solutions of problem (P) from those of the converted LP knapsack problem. The solution procedures have a worst case computational complexity of order $O(n^2{\log}\;n)$, where n is the total number of variables. We illustrate a numerical example and discuss some variations of problem (P).