VNS is a meta-heuristic that found its application in a vast range of combinatorial and global optimization problems [27] including various graph problems, knapsack and packing problems, scheduling problems, and data-mining problems.
Hillary set to packing a knapsack full of gear: camera equipment, snacks, a hunting knife ("in case I met a polar bear and he didn't have good table manners").
So there we have it: accountability, transparency, and none of it possible without people like Quierosaber packing a knapsack at 4am, wrapping laurel leaves round a borrowed camera and hiding under brambles.
Around the same time, I left a marriage that looked pretty perfect to family and friends one June day -- packing a knapsack and heading for my aunt's house over the bridge -- in a similar situation.
Part of being in the gay-rights movement is waiting in the hot sun for two and a half hours because you've been told to line up to march too early, packing a knapsack with water bottles and sunscreen, and schlepping proudly down Fifth Avenue -- wearing sensible sneakers, knee-high lace-up combat boots, or six-inch sequin come-fuck-me pumps -- not because you have to but because you want to.
The 3BKP consists in orthogonally packing a subset of three-dimensional weighted items into a knapsack in order to maximize the total profit of the loaded items.
They packed a knapsack of supplies, including some eggs and kitty treats, and we set off.
Nor did she pack a knapsack with emergency supplies, as some officials suggested back then.
At three-thirty on Thursday afternoon he packed a knapsack with a hunk of bread, a pair of gloves, a roll of piano wire, and an extra pair of pants.
And so, in an effort to hold onto Thomas longer, Oskar packs a knapsack, brings out his therapy tambourine (he plays it to keep anxiety at bay) and goes searching for Mr. or Mrs. Black, a quest that takes him from one corner of New York to the next and into the trembling, gentle embrace of its people.
