Title
A new exact approach for the Bilevel Knapsack with Interdiction Constraints.
Abstract
We consider the Bilevel Knapsack with Interdiction Constraints, an extension of the classic 0-1 knapsack problem formulated as a Stackelberg game with two agents, a leader and a follower, that choose items from a common set and hold their own private knapsacks. First, the leader selects some items to be interdicted for the follower while satisfying a capacity constraint. Then the follower packs a set of the remaining items according to his knapsack constraint in order to maximize the profits. The goal of the leader is to minimize the followeru0027s profits. The presence of two decision levels makes this problem very difficult to solve in practice: the current state-of-the-art algorithms can solve to optimality instances with 50-55 items at most. We derive effective lower bounds and present a new exact approach that exploits the structure of the induced followeru0027s problem. The approach successfully solves all benchmark instances within one second in the worst case and larger instances with up to 500 items within 60 seconds.
Year
Venue
DocType
2018
arXiv: Computer Science and Game Theory
Journal
Volume
Citations 
PageRank 
abs/1811.02822
0
0.34
References 
Authors
9
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Federico Della Croce1192.08
Rosario Scatamacchia2587.66