Small Approximate Pareto Sets for Bi-objective Shortest Paths and Other Problems

dc.creatorDiakonikolas, Ilias
dc.creatorYannakakis, Mihalis
dc.date2008-05-17
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dc.descriptionWe investigate the problem of computing a minimum set of solutions that approximates within a specified accuracy $ε$ the Pareto curve of a multiobjective optimization problem. We show that for a broad class of bi-objective problems (containing many important widely studied problems such as shortest paths, spanning tree, and many others), we can compute in polynomial time an $ε$-Pareto set that contains at most twice as many solutions as the minimum such set. Furthermore we show that the factor of 2 is tight for these problems, i.e., it is NP-hard to do better. We present upper and lower bounds for three or more objectives, as well as for the dual problem of computing a specified number $k$ of solutions which provide a good approximation to the Pareto curve.
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dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0805.2646
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0805.2646
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/161225
dc.subjectData Structures and Algorithms
dc.titleSmall Approximate Pareto Sets for Bi-objective Shortest Paths and Other Problems
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