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The multiple-choice knapsack problem (MCKP) is a classic NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem. Motivated by several significant real-world applications, this work investigates a novel variant of MCKP called chance-constrained…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Xuanfeng Li , Shengcai Liu , Jin Wang , Xiao Chen , Yew-Soon Ong , Ke Tang

The multiple knapsack problem (MKP) generalizes the classical knapsack problem by assigning items to multiple knapsacks subject to capacity constraints. It is used to model many real-world resource allocation and scheduling problems. In…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Ishara Hewa Pathiranage , Aneta Neumann

Quadratic multiple knapsack problem (QMKP) is a combinatorial optimisation problem characterised by multiple weight capacity constraints and a profit function that combines linear and quadratic profits. We study a stochastic variant of this…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Kokila Kasuni Perera , Aneta Neumann

We consider the distributed version of the Multiple Knapsack Problem (MKP), where $m$ items are to be distributed amongst $n$ processors, each with a knapsack. We propose different distributed approximation algorithms with a tradeoff…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-02-06 Ananth Murthy , Chandan Yeshwanth , Shrisha Rao

The knapsack problem (KP) and its multidimensional version (MKP) are basic problems in combinatorial optimization. In this paper we consider their multiobjective extension (MOKP and MOMKP), for which the aim is to obtain or to approximate…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2010-07-26 Thibaut Lust , Jacques Teghem

Evolutionary algorithms have been applied to a wide range of stochastic problems. Motivated by real-world problems where constraint violations have disruptive effects, this paper considers the chance-constrained knapsack problem (CCKP)…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Yue Xie , Oscar Harper , Hirad Assimi , Aneta Neumann , Frank Neumann

The chance-constrained knapsack problem is a variant of the classical knapsack problem where each item has a weight distribution instead of a deterministic weight. The objective is to maximize the total profit of the selected items under…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Yue Xie , Aneta Neumann , Frank Neumann

Evolutionary multi-objective algorithms have been widely shown to be successful when utilized for a variety of stochastic combinatorial optimization problems. Chance constrained optimization plays an important role in complex real-world…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Kokila Perera , Aneta Neumann , Frank Neumann

The 0-1 Multidimensional Knapsack Problem (MKP) is a classical NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem with many engineering applications. In this paper, we propose a novel algorithm combining evolutionary computation with the exact…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Jitao Xu , Hongbo Li , Minghao Yin

Multi-objective orienteering problems (MO-OPs) are classical multi-objective routing problems and have received a lot of attention in the past decades. This study seeks to solve MO-OPs through a problem-decomposition framework, that is, a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Wei Liu , Rui Wang , Tao Zhang , Kaiwen Li , Wenhua Li , Hisao Ishibuchi

Binary optimization has a wide range of applications in combinatorial optimization problems such as MaxCut, MIMO detection, and MaxSAT. However, these problems are typically NP-hard due to the binary constraints. We develop a novel…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-04 Cheng Chen , Ruitao Chen , Tianyou Li , Ruichen Ao , Zaiwen Wen

In this paper, we propose a parallel multiobjective evolutionary algorithm called Parallel Criterion-based Partitioning MOEA (PCPMOEA), with an application to the Mutliobjective Knapsack Problem (MOKP). The suggested search strategy is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-07 Kantour Nedjmeddine , Bouroubi Sadek , Chaabane Djamel

Real-world optimization problems often involve stochastic and dynamic components. Evolutionary algorithms are particularly effective in these scenarios, as they can easily adapt to uncertain and changing environments but often uncertainty…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Ishara Hewa Pathiranage , Frank Neumann , Denis Antipov , Aneta Neumann

Multi-objective optimisation is regarded as one of the most promising ways for dealing with constrained optimisation problems in evolutionary optimisation. This paper presents a theoretical investigation of a multi-objective optimisation…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-02-13 Jun He , Yong Wang , Yuren Zhou

Niching is an important and widely used technique in evolutionary multi-objective optimization. Its applications mainly focus on maintaining diversity and avoiding early convergence to local optimum. Recently, a special class of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Yiming Peng , Hisao Ishibuchi

Several real-world applications could be modeled as Mixed-Integer Non-Linear Programming (MINLP) problems, and some prominent examples include portfolio optimization, remote sensing technology, and so on. Most of the models for these…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-01-22 Yi Chen , Aimin Zhou , Swagatam Das

Leveraging the power of a graph neural network (GNN) with message passing, we present a Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) method to solve stochastic orienteering problems with chance constraints. While adhering to an assigned travel budget the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Marcos Abel Zuzuárregui , Stefano Carpin

Chance constrained optimization problems allow to model problems where constraints involving stochastic components should only be violated with a small probability. Evolutionary algorithms have been applied to this scenario and shown to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Frank Neumann , Carsten Witt

In this paper, we design a set of multi-objective constrained optimization problems (MCOPs) and propose a new repair operator to address them. The proposed repair operator is used to fix the solutions that violate the box constraints. More…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-04-02 Zhun Fan , Wenji Li , Xinye Cai , Huibiao Lin , Shuxiang Xie , Erik Goodman

Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods sample from unnormalized probability distributions and offer guarantees of exact sampling. However, in the continuous case, unfavorable geometry of the target distribution can greatly limit the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-09 Zengyi Li , Yubei Chen , Friedrich T. Sommer
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