Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/313669 
Year of Publication: 
2023
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[Journal:] Mathematical Methods of Operations Research [ISSN:] 1432-5217 [Volume:] 100 [Issue:] 1 [Publisher:] Springer Berlin Heidelberg [Year:] 2023 [Pages:] 5-25
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Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Abstract: 
Abstract It is well known that, under very weak assumptions, multiobjective optimization problems admit (1+ε,⋯,1+ε)-approximation sets (also called ε-Pareto sets ) of polynomial cardinality (in the size of the instance and in  1ε). While an approximation guarantee of 1+εfor any ε>0is the best one can expect for singleobjective problems (apart from solving the problem to optimality), even better approximation guarantees than (1+ε,⋯,1+ε)can be considered in the multiobjective case since the approximation might be exact in some of the objectives. Hence, in this paper, we consider partially exact approximation sets that require to approximate each feasible solution exactly, i.e., with an approximation guarantee of 1, in some of the objectives while still obtaining a guarantee of 1+εin all others. We characterize the types of polynomial-cardinality, partially exact approximation sets that are guaranteed to exist for general multiobjective optimization problems. Moreover, we study minimum-cardinality partially exact approximation sets concerning (weak) efficiency of the contained solutions and relate their cardinalities to the minimum cardinality of a (1+ε,⋯,1+ε)-approximation set.
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Multiobjective optimization
Approximation
Efficient set
Intractability
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