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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Synchronized simultaneous approximate lifting for the multiple knapsack polytope

Morrison, Thomas Braden January 1900 (has links)
Master of Science / Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering / Todd Easton / Integer programs (IPs) are mathematical models that can provide an optimal solution to a variety of different problems. They have the ability to maximize profitability and decrease wasteful spending, but IPs are NP-complete resulting in many IPs that cannot be solved in reasonable periods of time. Cutting planes or valid inequalities have been used to decrease the time required to solve IPs. These valid inequalities are commonly created using a procedure called lifting. Lifting is a technique that strengthens existing valid inequalities without cutting off feasible solutions. Lifting inequalities can result in facet defining inequalities, the theoretically strongest valid inequalities. Because of these properties, lifting procedures are used in software to reduce the time required to solve an IP. This thesis introduces a new algorithm for synchronized simultaneous approximate lifting for multiple knapsack problems. Synchronized Simultaneous Approximate Lifting (SSAL) requires O(|E1|SLP_|E1|+|E2|,m + |E1|2) effort, where |E1| and |E2| are the sizes of sets used in the algorithm and SLP is the time to solve a linear program. It approximately uplifts two sets simultaneously to creates multiple inequalities of a particular form. These new valid inequalities generated by SSAL can be facet defining. A small computational study shows that SSAL is quick to execute, requiring fractions of a second. Additionally, applying SSAL inequalities to large knapsack problem enabled commercial software to solve faster and also eliminate off the initial linear relaxation point.

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