Multi-Objective Optimization Repository (MOrepo)

This repository is a response to the needs of researchers from the MCDM society to access multi-objective (MO) optimization instances. The repository contains instances, results, generators etc. for different MO problems and is continuously updated. The repository can be used as a test set for testing new algorithms, validating existing results and for reproducibility. All researchers within MO optimization are welcome to contribute.

The repository consists of a main repository MOrepo at GitHub and a set of sub-repositories, one for each contribution. Sub-repositories are named MOrepo-<name> where name normally is the surname of the first author and year of the study. All repositories are located within the MCDMSociety organization at GitHub.

The main repository contains documentation about how to use and contribute to MOrepo. Moreover, a set of tools are given in the R package MOrepoTools which can be used to retrieve info about test instance groups, results and problem classes.

Maintainers of MOrepo are Lars Relund Nielsen larsrn@econ.au.dk and Sune Gadegaard sgadegaard@econ.au.dk.

Current maintainers of sub-repositories are Sune Lauth Gadegaard sgadegaard@econ.au.dk, Lars Relund junk@relund.dk, Thomas Stidsen thst@dtu.dk, Nathan Adelgren nadelgren@edinboro.edu and Lars Relund lars@relund.dk.

Current contributors to the repository are S.L. Gadegaard, A. Klose, L.R. Nielsen, C.R. Pedersen, K.A. Andersen, D. Tuyttens, J. Teghem, Ph. Fortemps, K. Van Nieuwenhuyze, M.P. Hansen, N. Adelgren, A. Gupte, N. Forget, K. Klamroth, A. Przybylski, M. Lyngesen, Gadegaard S.L., list(list(given = “Duleabom”, family = “An”, role = NULL, email = NULL, comment = NULL), list(given = c(“Sophie”, “N.”), family = “Parragh”, role = NULL, email = NULL, comment = NULL), list(given = “Markus”, family = “Sinnl”, role = NULL, email = NULL, comment = NULL), list(given = “Fabien”, family = “Tricoire”, role = NULL, email = NULL, comment = NULL)), list(list(given = “D.”, family = “An”, role = NULL, email = NULL, comment = NULL), list(given = “S.N.”, family = “Parragh”, role = NULL, email = NULL, comment = NULL), list(given = “N.”, family = “Sinnl”, role = NULL, email = NULL, comment = NULL), list(given = “F.”, family = “Tricoire”, role = NULL, email = NULL, comment = NULL)), G. Kirlik and S. Sayın.

Usage

Instances can be downloaded in different ways depending on usage:

If you want a whole sub-repository, download it as a zip file or clone it on GitHub.
Browse to a single instance and download it using the raw format at GitHub.
Use the R package MOrepoTools to download instances.

All researchers are welcome to contribute to MOrepo. The repository mainly contains MO test instances and results from various sources. However, also generators, format converters, algorithms etc. related to MO optimization are welcome. Have a look at the contribute file which describes different ways to do it.

Test instances @ MOrepo

MOrepo contains instances for different problem classes. The contributions listed after class are:

Problem class	Repository
Facility Location	Gadegaard16, Forget20, Forget21, An22
Assignment	Pedersen08, Tuyttens00, Forget20
Traveling Salesman	Hansen00
MILP	Adelgren16
Knapsack	Forget20, Kirlik14
Production Planning	Forget21
Minkowski Sum - Subset	Lyngesen24
Minkowski Sum	Lyngesen24
ILP	Kirlik14

Detailed information

MOrepo contains instances for problem classes Facility Location, Assignment, Traveling Salesman, MILP, Knapsack, Production Planning, Minkowski Sum - Subset, Minkowski Sum and ILP. A detailed description of the contributions are:

Contribution - Gadegaard16

Source: Gadegaard, S., A. Klose, and L. Nielsen (2016). “A bi-objective approach to discrete cost-bottleneck location problems”. In: Annals of Operations Research, pp. 1-23. DOI: 10.1007/s10479-016-2360-8.

Test problem classes: Facility Location
Subfolders: CFLP_UFLP and SSCFLP
Formats: raw

Contribution - Pedersen08

Source: Pedersen, C., L. Nielsen, and K. Andersen (2008). “The Bicriterion Multi Modal Assignment Problem: Introduction, Analysis, and Experimental Results”. In: Informs Journal on Computing 20.3, pp. 400-411. DOI: 10.1287/ijoc.1070.0253.

Test problem classes: Assignment
Subfolders: AP and MMAP
Formats: xml

Contribution - Tuyttens00

Source: Tuyttens, D., J. Teghem, P. Fortemps, et al. (2000). “Performance of the MOSA Method for the Bicriteria Assignment Problem”. In: Journal of Heuristics 6.3, pp. 295-310. DOI: 10.1023/A:1009670112978.

Test problem classes: Assignment
Formats: raw and xml

Contribution - Hansen00

Source: Hansen, M. (2000). “Use of Substitute Scalarizing Functions to Guide a Local Search Based Heuristic: The Case of moTSP”. In: Journal of Heuristics 6.3, pp. 419-431. DOI: 10.1023/A:1009690717521.

Test problem classes: Traveling Salesman
Formats: raw

Contribution - Adelgren16

Source: Adelgren, N. and A. Gupte (2016). Branch-and-bound for biobjective mixed-integer programming. Optimization Online. Research rep. URL: http://www.optimization-online.org/DB_HTML/2016/10/5676.html.

Test problem classes: MILP
Subfolders: LP_1, LP_2, LP_3, LP_4, LP_5 and LP_6
Formats: lp

Contribution - Forget20

Source: Forget, N., S. Gadegaard, K. Klamroth, et al. (2020). Branch-and-bound and objective branching with three objectives. Optimization Online. URL: http://www.optimization-online.org/DB_FILE/2020/12/8158.pdf.

Test problem classes: Assignment, Knapsack and Facility Location
Subfolders: AP, KP and UFLP
Formats: raw

Contribution - Forget21

Source: Forget, N., S. Gadegaard, and L. Nielsen (2021). Linear relaxation based branch-and-bound for multi-objective integer programming with warm-starting. Optimizaton Online. URL: http://www.optimization-online.org/DB_HTML/2021/08/8531.html.

Test problem classes: Production Planning and Facility Location
Subfolders: PPP/3obj, PPP/4obj, PPP/5obj, UFLP/3obj, UFLP/4obj and UFLP/5obj
Formats: fgt

Contribution - Lyngesen24

Source: Lyngesen, M., G. S.L., and L. Nielsen (2024). “Generator sets for Minkowski Sums - Theory and Insights”. In: ??.

Test problem classes: Minkowski Sum - Subset and Minkowski Sum
Subfolders: sp/2obj, sp/3obj, sp/4obj, sp/5obj, msp/2obj, msp/3obj, msp/4obj and msp/5obj
Formats: json

Contribution - An22

Source: An, D., S. N. Parragh, M. Sinnl, et al. (2024). “A matheuristic for tri-objective binary integer linear programming”. In: Computers & Operations Research 161, p. 106397. ISSN: 0305-0548. DOI: 10.1016/j.cor.2023.106397. URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cor.2023.106397.

Test problem classes: Facility Location
Subfolders: CFLP
Formats: fgt

Contribution - Kirlik14

Source: Kirlik, G. and S. Sayın (2014). “A new algorithm for generating all nondominated solutions of multiobjective discrete optimization problems”. In: European Journal of Operational Research 232.3, pp. 479 - 488. DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2013.08.001.

Test problem classes: ILP and Knapsack
Subfolders: ILP/3obj, ILP/4obj, ILP/5obj, KP/3obj, KP/4obj and KP/5obj
Formats: fgt

Results @ MOrepo

MOrepo contains results for some of the instances in problem classes:

Problem class	Repository
Assignment	Pedersen08, Forget20
Knapsack	Forget20
Facility Location	Forget20
Minkowski Sum - Subset	Lyngesen24
Minkowski Sum	Lyngesen24

Detailed information

MOrepo contains results for some of the instances in problem classes Assignment, Knapsack, Facility Location, Minkowski Sum - Subset and Minkowski Sum. The contributions are:

Contribution - Pedersen08

Source: Pedersen, C., L. Nielsen, and K. Andersen (2008). “The Bicriterion Multi Modal Assignment Problem: Introduction, Analysis, and Experimental Results”. In: Informs Journal on Computing 20.3, pp. 400-411. DOI: 10.1287/ijoc.1070.0253.

Results given for contributions: Pedersen08 and Tuyttens00

Contribution - Forget20

Source: Forget, N., S. Gadegaard, K. Klamroth, et al. (2020). Branch-and-bound and objective branching with three objectives. Optimization Online. URL: http://www.optimization-online.org/DB_FILE/2020/12/8158.pdf.

Results given for contributions: Forget20

Contribution - Lyngesen24

Source: Lyngesen, M., G. S.L., and L. Nielsen (2024). “Generator sets for Minkowski Sums - Theory and Insights”. In: ??.

Results given for contributions: Lyngesen24

How to cite

To cite use

## @Electronic{MOrepo,
##   title = {Multi-Objective Optimization Repository (MOrepo)},
##   author = {L. R. Nielsen},
##   url = {https://github.com/MCDMSociety/MOrepo},
##   year = {2017},
## }

Use R to download instances

You may use the R package MOrepoTools to download instances. You don’t need much knowledge about R to use the package. But of course it is preferable. You need R and preferable RStudio installed on your computer. First you have to install the MOrepoTools package. From the R command line write:

library(devtools)   # if the package is missing see ?install.package 
install_github("MCDMSociety/MOrepo/misc/R/MOrepoTools")

To get an overview over the current problem classes run:

library(MOrepoTools)
getProblemClasses()  # current problem classes in MOrepo
## [1] "Facility Location"      "Assignment"             "Traveling Salesman"    
## [4] "MILP"                   "Knapsack"               "Production Planning"   
## [7] "Minkowski Sum - Subset" "Minkowski Sum"          "ILP"
getInstanceInfo(class = "Assignment")  # info about instances for the assignment problem
## 
## #### Contribution Pedersen08
## 
## Source: Pedersen, C., L. Nielsen, and K. Andersen (2008). "The Bicriterion
## Multi Modal Assignment Problem: Introduction, Analysis, and
## Experimental Results". In: _Informs Journal on Computing_ 20.3, pp.
## 400-411. DOI:
## [10.1287/ijoc.1070.0253](https://doi.org/10.1287%2Fijoc.1070.0253).
## 
## Test problem classes: Assignment  
## Subfolders: AP and MMAP  
## Formats: xml  
## 
## #### Contribution Tuyttens00
## 
## Source: Tuyttens, D., J. Teghem, P. Fortemps, et al. (2000). "Performance of
## the MOSA Method for the Bicriteria Assignment Problem". In: _Journal of
## Heuristics_ 6.3, pp. 295-310. DOI:
## [10.1023/A:1009670112978](https://doi.org/10.1023%2FA%3A1009670112978).
## 
## Test problem classes: Assignment  
## Formats: raw and xml  
## 
## #### Contribution Forget20
## 
## Source: Forget, N., S. Gadegaard, K. Klamroth, et al. (2020). _Branch-and-bound
## and objective branching with three objectives_. Optimization Online.
## URL:
## [http://www.optimization-online.org/DB_FILE/2020/12/8158.pdf](http://www.optimization-online.org/DB_FILE/2020/12/8158.pdf).
## 
## Test problem classes: Assignment, Knapsack and Facility Location  
## Subfolders: AP, KP and UFLP  
## Formats: raw

Now download the Tuyttens00 contribution as a zip file using

getContributionAsZip("Tuyttens00")
## Download MOrepo-Tuyttens00.zip ... finished.

Provide feedback

Saved searches

Use saved searches to filter your results more quickly

ReadMe.md

ReadMe.md

Multi-Objective Optimization Repository (MOrepo)

Usage

Test instances @ MOrepo

Detailed information

Contribution - Gadegaard16

Contribution - Pedersen08

Contribution - Tuyttens00

Contribution - Hansen00

Contribution - Adelgren16

Contribution - Forget20

Contribution - Forget21

Contribution - Lyngesen24

Contribution - An22

Contribution - Kirlik14

Results @ MOrepo

Detailed information

Contribution - Pedersen08

Contribution - Forget20

Contribution - Lyngesen24

How to cite

Use R to download instances

Files

ReadMe.md

Latest commit

History

ReadMe.md

File metadata and controls

Multi-Objective Optimization Repository (MOrepo)

Usage

Test instances @ MOrepo

Detailed information

Contribution - Gadegaard16

Contribution - Pedersen08

Contribution - Tuyttens00

Contribution - Hansen00

Contribution - Adelgren16

Contribution - Forget20

Contribution - Forget21

Contribution - Lyngesen24

Contribution - An22

Contribution - Kirlik14

Results @ MOrepo

Detailed information

Contribution - Pedersen08

Contribution - Forget20

Contribution - Lyngesen24

How to cite

Use R to download instances