A note on the set union knapsack problem

Recently, Khuller, Moss and Naor presented a greedy algorithm for the budgeted maximum coverage problem. In this note, we observe that this algorithm also approximates a special case of a set-union knapsack problem within a constant factor. In the special case, an element is a member of less than a constant number of subsets. This guarantee naturally extends to densest k-subgraph problem on graphs of bounded degree. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.