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From climate change and COVID-19 to violent crime and the national budget deficit: why are Americans increasingly divided over which issues deserve attention? And how do these divisions emerge even ...

Consider someone who’s perfectly content with their office chair. It’s not ergonomic, it doesn’t have lumbar support, but it works. Then, during a meeting or a visit to a friend’s office, they sit in ...

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A Python implementation of a branch-and-bound approach (plus a simple greedy heuristic) to solve a variation of the multiple knapsack problem where items have both individual and pairwise benefits.

You may have noticed that Smokey Bear has changed his tagline. In fact, it’s been different for years now, but with current news stories, it catches the ear differently. Many of us grew up with Smokey ...

This repository was created for the subject of Computer Theory. The propose of this subject is to improve your skills to solve the 0-1 knapsack problem of different ways. The techniques used were ...

Abstract: The knapsack problem is known as a NP-hard problem. There is a dynamic programming solution for this problem which is called the 0–1 knapsack. Firefly's innovative optimization algorithm is ...

We consider situations in which a decision-maker with a fixed budget faces a sequence of options, each with a cost and a value, and must select a subset of them online so as to maximize the total ...