Bucket elimination for multiobjective optimization problems

  • Authors:
  • Emma Rollón;Javier Larrosa

  • Affiliations:
  • Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain;Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Heuristics
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Multiobjective optimization deals with problems involving multiple measures of performance that should be optimized simultaneously. In this paper we extend bucket elimination (BE), a well known dynamic programming generic algorithm, from mono-objective to multiobjective optimization. We show that the resulting algorithm, MO-BE, can be applied to true multi-objective problems as well as mono-objective problems with knapsack (or related) global constraints. We also extend mini-bucket elimination (MBE), the approximation form of BE, to multiobjective optimization. The new algorithm MO-MBE can be used to obtain good quality multi-objective lower bounds or it can be integrated into multi-objective branch and bound in order to increase its pruning efficiency. Its accuracy is empirically evaluated in real scheduling problems, as well as in Max-SAT-ONE and biobjective weighted minimum vertex cover problems.