Analysis of a simple evolutionary algorithm for the multiobjective shortest path problem

  • Authors:
  • Christian Horoba

  • Affiliations:
  • Technische Universitaet Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the tenth ACM SIGEVO workshop on Foundations of genetic algorithms
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We present a natural fitness function f for the multiobjective shortest path problem, which is a fundamental multiobjective combinatorial optimization problem known to be NP-hard. Thereafter, we conduct a rigorous runtime analysis of a simple evolutionary algorithm (EA) optimizing f. Interestingly, this simple general algorithm is a fully polynomial-time randomized approximation scheme (FPRAS) for the problem under consideration, which exemplifies how EAs are able to find good approximate solutions for hard problems.