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An efficient binary differential evolution algorithm for the multidimensional knapsack problem

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This paper proposes a novel approach for the multidimensional knapsack problem (MDKP) using differential evolution. Firstly, the principle and the pseudo-code of binary differential evolution with hybrid encoding (HBDE) are presented. On the basis of the existing repair operator 2 (RO2), an improved repair operator 3 (RO3) for handling the infeasible solutions of MDKP is developed. Then, combine HBDE with RO3, an efficient algorithm (HBDE-RO3) for MDKP is proposed. Finally, the experiment results of the 138 well-known MDKP benchmarks show that RO3 is advantageous to deal with the infeasible solutions than RO2, and the proposed algorithm HBDE-RO3 has superior performance for solving MDKP than the state-of-the-art algorithms.

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This article was supported by National Natural Science Foundations of China (11471097), Scientific Research Project Program of Colleges and Universities in Hebei Province (ZD2016005), and Natural Science Foundation of Hebei Province (F2016403055),and Scientific and Technological Research Projects of Colleges and Universities in Hebei Province (QN2019075).

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    Yichao He, Wenbin Li & Ning Li

  2. College of Mathematics and Information Science, Hebei Normal University, Shijiazhuang, 050024, China

    Xinlu Zhang & Jinghong Wang

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He, Y., Zhang, X., Li, W. et al. An efficient binary differential evolution algorithm for the multidimensional knapsack problem. Engineering with Computers 37, 745–761 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00366-019-00853-7

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