A branch-and-bound algorithm for hard multiple knapsack problems
A branch-and-bound algorithm for hard multiple knapsack problems
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DOI:
10.1007/s10479-009-0660-y
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发表时间:
2011-04
影响因子:
4.8
通讯作者:
A. Fukunaga
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作者:
A. Fukunaga
The multiple knapsack problem (MKP) is a classical combinatorial optimization problem. A recent algorithm for some classes of the MKP is bin-completion, a bin-oriented, branch-and-bound algorithm. In this paper, we propose path-symmetry and path-dominance criteria for pruning nodes in the MKP branch-and-bound search space. In addition, we integrate the “bound-and-bound” upper bound validation technique used in previous MKP solvers. We show experimentally that our new MKP solver, which successfully integrates dominance based pruning, symmetry breaking, and bound-and-bound, significantly outperforms previous solvers on some classes of hard problem instances.