Title
Evolutionary algorithms for the chance-constrained knapsack problem
Abstract
ABSTRACTEvolutionary algorithms have been widely used for a range of stochastic optimization problems. In most studies, the goal is to optimize the expected quality of the solution. Motivated by real-world problems where constraint violations have extremely disruptive effects, we consider a variant of the knapsack problem where the profit is maximized under the constraint that the knapsack capacity bound is violated with a small probability of at most α. This problem is known as chance-constrained knapsack problem and chance-constrained optimization problems have so far gained little attention in the evolutionary computation literature. We show how to use popular deviation inequalities such as Chebyshev's inequality and Chernoff bounds as part of the solution evaluation when tackling these problems by evolutionary algorithms and compare the effectiveness of our algorithms on a wide range of chance-constrained knapsack instances.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1145/3321707.3321869
Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference
Keywords
Field
DocType
Knapsack problem, chance-constrained optimization, evolutionary algorithms
Mathematical optimization,Stochastic optimization,Evolutionary algorithm,Computer science,Evolutionary computation,Chebyshev filter,Knapsack problem,Optimization problem,Chernoff bound
Journal
Volume
Citations 
PageRank 
abs/1902.04767
0
0.34
References 
Authors
17
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yue Xie102.37
Oscar Harper200.34
Hirad Assimi3102.53
Aneta Neumann41412.79
Frank Neumann51727124.28