Evolutionary Multi-Objective Algorithms for the Knapsack Problems with Stochastic Profits
Evolutionary multi-objective algorithms have been widely shown to be successful when utilized for a variety of stochastic combinatorial optimization problems. Chance constrained optimization plays an important role in complex real-world scenarios, as it allows decision makers to take into account the uncertainty of the environment. We consider a version of the knapsack problem with stochastic profits to guarantee a certain level of confidence in the profit of the solutions. We introduce the multi-objective formulations of the profit chance constrained knapsack problem and design three bi-objective fitness evaluation methods that work independently of the specific confidence level required. We evaluate our approaches using well-known multi-objective evolutionary algorithms GSEMO and NSGA-II. In addition, we introduce a filtering method for GSEMO that improves the quality of the final population by periodically removing certain solutions from the interim populations based on their confidence level. We show the effectiveness of our approaches on several benchmarks for both settings where the knapsack items have fixed uniform uncertainties and uncertainties that are positively correlated with the expected profit of an item.
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