3 research outputs found
A Weight-coded Evolutionary Algorithm for the Multidimensional Knapsack Problem
A revised weight-coded evolutionary algorithm (RWCEA) is proposed for solving
multidimensional knapsack problems. This RWCEA uses a new decoding method and
incorporates a heuristic method in initialization. Computational results show
that the RWCEA performs better than a weight-coded evolutionary algorithm
proposed by Raidl (1999) and to some existing benchmarks, it can yield better
results than the ones reported in the OR-library.Comment: Submitted to Applied Mathematics and Computation on April 8, 201
Solving the bi-objective multi-dimensional knapsack problem exploiting the concept of core
This paper deals with the bi-objective multi-dimensional knapsack problem. We propose the adaptation of the core concept that is effectively used in single-objective multi-dimensional knapsack problems. The main idea of the core concept is based on the “divide and conquer” principle. Namely, instead of solving one problem with n variables we solve several sub-problems with a fraction of n variables (core variables). The quality of the obtained solution can be adjusted according to the size of the core and there is always a trade off between the solution time and the quality of solution. In the specific study we define the core problem for the multi-objective multi-dimensional knapsack problem. After defining the core we solve the bi-objective integer programming that comprises only the core variables using the Multicriteria Branch and Bound algorithm that can generate the complete Pareto set in small and medium size multi-objective integer programming problems. A small example is used to illustrate the method while computational and economy issues are also discussed. Computational experiments are also presented using available or appropriately modified benchmarks in order to examine the quality of Pareto set approximation with respect to the solution time. Extensions to the general multi-objective case as well as to the computation of the exact solution are also mentioned