Approximating Multi-objective Knapsack Problems

  • Authors:
  • Thomas Erlebach;Hans Kellerer;Ulrich Pferschy

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • WADS '01 Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Algorithms and Data Structures
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

For multi-objective optimization problems, it is meaningful to compute a set of solutions covering all possible trade-offs between the different objectives. The multi-objective knapsack problem is a generalization of the classical knapsack problem in which each item has several profit values. For this problem, efficient algorithms for computing a provably good approximation to the set of all non-dominated feasible solutions, the Pareto frontier, are studied. For the multi-objective 1-dimensional knapsack problem, a fast fully polynomial-time approximation scheme is derived. It is based on a new approach to the single-objective knapsack problem using a partition of the profit space into intervals of exponentially increasing length. For the multi-objective m-dimensional knapsack problem, the first known polynomial-time approximation scheme, based on linear programming, is presented.