I think your real question is: βWhat is the exact definition of the problem with a linear relaxation backpack?β, So I'm going to answer, suggesting that it is.
The short answer is that linearly relaxed KP is a fractional version of 0-1 KP [1] .
Mathematically, all you have to do is convert the constraint "x_i belongs to the set {0, 1}" and convert it to "x_i should be any real number from 0 to 1", where x_i is the number of the ith element in your backpack solutions.
The name comes from the fact that 0-1 KP is an integer programming task. A βlinearβ term means that decision variables can take on continuous values.
However, not all relaxations are linear. You can check this Wikipedia page for them.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_programming_relaxation
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