Bounded knapsack - formulation

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I need to map an optimization problem to a bounded knapsack problem.

I have a set of items, each with a given value vi. All my items have the same weight (wi = 1) :

  • Item 1 => v1 : 2, w1 : 1
  • Item 2 => v2 : 3, w2 : 1
  • Item 3 => v3 :4, w3 :1
  • etc.

In my knapsack I can put the same item multiple times (bounded Knapsack) with the constraint that the number of items added to the knapsack cannot exceed c (and, hence, each item cannot be added more than c times).

The problem is that the value assigned to an item is dependent on the previous content of the bag : each time an item is added to knapsack, its value is divided by the number of occurrence of the item in the bag. For example, if item 1 is added two times to the knapsack, its value must be decreased to v1/2. If it is added 3 times, its value became v1/3, and so on.

My question is how can I modelize this as a (0-1) knapsack problem and is there a DP solution for that?

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