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Inverse Problems of Some NP-Complete Problems

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The Knapsack problem and integer programming are NP-complete problems. In this paper we show that the inverse problem of Knapsack problem can be solved with a pseudo-polynomial algorithm. We also show that the inverse problem of integer programming with fixed number of constraints is pseudo-polynomial.

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Huang, S. (2005). Inverse Problems of Some NP-Complete Problems. In: Megiddo, N., Xu, Y., Zhu, B. (eds) Algorithmic Applications in Management. AAIM 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3521. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11496199_45

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