Pareto local search (PLS) is a basic building block in many metaheuristics for a multiobjective combinatorial optimization problem. In this paper, an enhanced PLS variant called parallel PLS based on decomposition (PP...
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Pareto local search (PLS) is a basic building block in many metaheuristics for a multiobjective combinatorial optimization problem. In this paper, an enhanced PLS variant called parallel PLS based on decomposition (PPLS/D) is proposed. PPLS/D improves the efficiency of PLS using the techniques of parallel computation and problem decomposition. It decomposes the original search space into L subregions and executes L parallel processes searching in these subregions simultaneously. Inside each subregion, the PPLS/D process is guided by a unique scalar objective function. PPLS/D differs from the well-known two phase PLS in that it uses the scalar objective function to guide every move of the PLS procedure in a fine-grained manner. In the experimental studies, PPLS/D is compared against the basic PLS and a recently proposed PLS variant on the multiobjective unconstrained binary quadratic programming problems and the multiobjective traveling salesman problems with, at most, four objectives. The experimental results show that regardless of whether the initial solutions are randomly generated or generated by heuristic methods, PPLS/D always performs significantly better than the other two PLS variants.
In this article, we introduce the rectangular knapsack problem as a special case of the quadratic knapsack problem consisting in the maximization of the product of two separate knapsack profits subject to a cardinalit...
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In this article, we introduce the rectangular knapsack problem as a special case of the quadratic knapsack problem consisting in the maximization of the product of two separate knapsack profits subject to a cardinality constraint. We propose a polynomial time algorithm for this problem that provides a constant approximation ratio of 4.5. Our experimental results on a large number of artificially generated problem instances show that the average ratio is far from theoretical guarantee. In addition, we suggest refined versions of this approximation algorithm with the same time complexity and approximation ratio that lead to even better experimental results.
In this paper, a multiobjective dynamic bin packing problem for storing cooling objects is introduced along with a metaheuristic designed to work well in mixed-variable environments. The dynamic bin packing problem is...
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In this paper, a multiobjective dynamic bin packing problem for storing cooling objects is introduced along with a metaheuristic designed to work well in mixed-variable environments. The dynamic bin packing problem is based on cookie production at a bakery, where cookies arrive in batches at a cooling rack with limited capacity and are packed into boxes with three competing goals. The first is to minimize the number of boxes used. The second objective is to minimize the average initial heat of each box, and the third is to minimize the maximum time until the boxes can be moved to the storefront. The metaheuristic developed here incorporated greedy heuristics into an adaptive evolutionary framework with partial decomposition into clusters of solutions for the crossover operator. The new metaheuristic was applied to a variety benchmark bin packing problems and to a small and large version of the dynamic bin packing problem. It performed as well as other metaheuristics in the benchmark problems and produced more diverse solutions in the dynamic problems. It performed better overall in the small dynamic problem, but its performance could not be proven to be better or worse in the large dynamic problem.
Typically, multi-objective optimization problems give rise to a large number of optimal solutions. However, this information can be overwhelming to a decision maker. This article introduces a technique to find a repre...
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Typically, multi-objective optimization problems give rise to a large number of optimal solutions. However, this information can be overwhelming to a decision maker. This article introduces a technique to find a representative subset of optimal solutions, of a given bounded cardinality for an unconstrained bi-objective combinatorialoptimization problem in terms of -indicator. This technique extends the Nemhauser-Ullman algorithm for the knapsack problem and allows to find a representative subset in a single run. We present a discussion on the representation quality achieved by this technique, both from a theoretical and numerical perspective, with respect to an optimal representation.
Microarray data analysis is a challenging problem in the data mining field. Actually, it represents the expression levels of thousands of genes under several conditions. The analysis of this data consists on discoveri...
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Microarray data analysis is a challenging problem in the data mining field. Actually, it represents the expression levels of thousands of genes under several conditions. The analysis of this data consists on discovering genes that share similar expression patterns across a sub-set of conditions. In fact, the extracted informations are submatrices of the microarray data that satisfy a coherence constraint. These submatrices are called biclusters, while the process of extracting them is called biclustering. Since its first application to the analysis of microarray [1], many modeling and algorithms have been proposed to solve it. In this work, we propose a new multiobjective model and a new metaheuristic HMOBIibea for the biclustering problem. Results of the proposed method are compared to those of other existing algorithms and the biological relevance of the extracted information is validated. The experimental results show that our method extracts very relevant biclusters, with large sizes with respect to existing methods. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
This paper deals with biobjective combinatorialoptimization problems where both objectives are required to be well-balanced. Lorenz dominance is a refinement of the Pareto dominance that has been proposed in economic...
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(纸本)9783319231143;9783319231136
This paper deals with biobjective combinatorialoptimization problems where both objectives are required to be well-balanced. Lorenz dominance is a refinement of the Pareto dominance that has been proposed in economics to measure the inequalities in income distributions. We consider in this work the problem of computing the Lorenz optimal solutions to combinatorialoptimization problems where solutions are evaluated by a two-component vector. This setting can encompass fair optimization or robust optimization. The computation of Lorenz optimal solutions in biobjective combinatorialoptimization is however challenging (it has been shown intractable and NP-hard on certain problems). Nevertheless, to our knowledge, very few works address this problem. We propose thus in this work new methods to generate Lorenz optimal solutions. More precisely, we consider the adaptation of the well-known two-phase method proposed in biobjective optimization for computing Pareto optimal solutions to the direct computing of Lorenz optimal solutions. We show that some properties of the Lorenz dominance can provide a more efficient variant of the two-phase method. The results of the new method are compared to state-of-the-art methods on various biobjective combinatorialoptimization problems and we show that the new method is more efficient in a majority of cases.
The conventional unconstrained binary quadratic programming (UBQP) problem is known to be a unified modeling and solution framework for many combinatorialoptimization problems. This paper extends the single-objective...
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The conventional unconstrained binary quadratic programming (UBQP) problem is known to be a unified modeling and solution framework for many combinatorialoptimization problems. This paper extends the single-objective UBQP to the multiobjective case (mUBQP) where multiple objectives are to be optimized simultaneously. We propose a hybrid metaheuristic which combines an elitist evolutionary multiobjectiveoptimization algorithm and a state-of-the-art single-objective tabu search procedure by using an achievement scalarizing function. Finally, we define a formal model to generate mUBQP instances and validate the performance of the proposed approach in obtaining competitive results on large-size mUBQ Pinstances with two and three objectives. (C) 2013 Elsevier B. V. All rights reserved.
In this paper, we propose a suffcient condition for a solution to be optimal for a 2-additive Choquet integral in the context of multiobjective combinatorial optimization problems. A 2-additive Choquet optimal solutio...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9783319087955;9783319087948
In this paper, we propose a suffcient condition for a solution to be optimal for a 2-additive Choquet integral in the context of multiobjective combinatorial optimization problems. A 2-additive Choquet optimal solution is a solution that optimizes at least one set of parameters of the 2-additive Choquet integral. We also present a method to generate 2-additive Choquet optimal solutions of multiobjective combinatorial optimization problems. The method is experimented on some Pareto fronts and the results are analyzed.
We consider a rooted tree graph with costs associated with the edges and profits associated with the vertices. Every subtree containing the root incurs the sum of the costs of its edges, and collects the sum of the pr...
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We consider a rooted tree graph with costs associated with the edges and profits associated with the vertices. Every subtree containing the root incurs the sum of the costs of its edges, and collects the sum of the profits of its nodes;the goal is the simultaneous minimization of the total cost and maximization of the total profit. This problem is related to the TSP with profits on graphs with a tree metric. We analyze the problem from a biobjective point of view. We show that finding all extreme supported efficient points can be done in polynomial time. The problem of finding all efficient points, however, is harder;we propose a practical FPTAS for solving this problem. Some special cases are considered where the particular profit/cost structure or graph topology allows the efficient points to be found in polynomial time. Our results can be extended to more general graphs with distance matrices satisfying the Kalmanson conditions. (c) 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. NETWORKS, 2013
In this article we describe three formulations of a multiobjective combinatorial optimization problem, as well as several complexity results and structural properties of these formulations. A multiobjective dynamic pr...
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In this article we describe three formulations of a multiobjective combinatorial optimization problem, as well as several complexity results and structural properties of these formulations. A multiobjective dynamic programming algorithm is proposed for each of the three formulations. Based on our theoretical and computational results we argue that a clever definition of the recursion, allowing for strong dominance criteria, is crucial in the design of a multiobjective dynamic programming algorithm. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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