An Algorithmic Approach to Multiobjective Optimization with Decision Uncertainty

In real life applications optimization problems with more than one objective function are often of interest. Next to handling multiple objective functions, another challenge is to deal with uncertainties concerning the realization of the decision variables. One approach to handle these uncertainties is to consider the objectives as set-valued functions. Hence, the image of one … Read more

Best case exponential running time of a branch-and-bound algorithm using an optimal semidefinite relaxation

Chvatal (1980) has given a simple example of a knapsack problem for which a branch-and-bound algorithm using domination and linear relaxations to eliminate subproblems will use an exponential number of steps in the best case. In this short note it is shown that Chvatals result remains true when the LP relaxation is replaced with a … Read more

A Branch-and-Bound based Algorithm for Nonconvex Multiobjective Optimization

A new branch-and-bound based algorithm for smooth nonconvex multiobjective optimization problems with convex constraints is presented. The algorithm computes an $(\varepsilon,\delta)$-approximation of all globally optimal solutions. We introduce the algorithm which uses selection rules, discarding and termination tests. The discarding tests are the most important aspect, as they examine in different ways whether a box … Read more

An LP-based Algorithm to Test Copositivity

A symmetric matrix is called copositive if it generates a quadratic form taking no negative values over the nonnegative orthant, and the linear optimization problem over the set of copositive matrices is called the copositive programming problem. Recently, many studies have been done on the copositive programming problem (see, for example, \cite{aDUR10, aBOMZE12}). Among others, … Read more