Multi-objective Quadratic Assignment Problem Instances Generator with a Known Optimum Solution.

Madalina Drugan

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    Abstract

    Multi-objective quadratic assignment problems (mQAPs) are NP-hard problems that optimally allocate facilities to locations using a distance matrix and several flow matrices. mQAPs are often used to compare the performance of the multi-objective meta-heuristics. We generate large mQAP instances by combining small size mQAP with known local optimum. We call these instances composite mQAPs, and we show that the cost function of these mQAPs is additively decomposable. We give mild conditions for which a composite mQAP instance has known optimum solution. We generate composite mQAP instances using a set of uniform distributions that obey these conditions. Using numerical experiments we show that composite mQAPs are difficult for multi-objective meta-heuristics.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationParallel problem solving from Nature (PPSN)
    PublisherSpringer
    Number of pages10
    ISBN (Print)978-3-319-10761-5
    Publication statusPublished - Sep 2014
    Event13th International Conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia - , Slovenia
    Duration: 13 Sep 201417 Sep 2014

    Publication series

    NameParallel problem solving from Nature (PPSN)

    Conference

    Conference13th International Conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia
    Country/TerritorySlovenia
    Period13/09/1417/09/14

    Keywords

    • Multi-objective optimization
    • Quadratic assignment problem
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