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Runtime analysis of the (1 + 1) evolutionary algorithm for the chance-constrained knapsack problem

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FOGA '19: Proceedings of the 15th ACM/SIGEVO Conference on Foundations of Genetic Algorithms

Pages 147 - 153

https://doi.org/10.1145/3299904.3340315

Published: 27 August 2019 Publication History

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The area of runtime analysis has made important contributions to the theoretical understanding of evolutionary algoirthms for stochastic problems in recent years. Important real-world applications involve chance constraints where the goal is to optimize a function under the condition that constraints are only violated with a small probability. We rigorously analyze the runtime of the (1+1) EA for the chance-constrained knapsack problem. In this setting, the weights are stochastic, and the objective is to maximize a linear profit function while minimizing the probability of a constraint violation in the total weight. We investigate a number of special cases for this problem, paying attention to how the structure of the chance constraint influences the runtime behavior of the (1+1) EA. Our results reveal that small changes to the profit value can result in hard-to-escape local optima.

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Runtime analysis of the (1 + 1) evolutionary algorithm for the chance-constrained knapsack problem
1. Theory of computation
  1. Theory and algorithms for application domains
    1. Theory of randomized search heuristics

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FOGA '19: Proceedings of the 15th ACM/SIGEVO Conference on Foundations of Genetic Algorithms

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DOI:10.1145/3299904

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