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On solving the sum-of-ratios problem

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  • Gruzdeva, Tatiana V.
  • Strekalovsky, Alexander S.

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This paper addresses the development of efficient global search methods for fractional programming problems. Such problems are, in general, nonconvex (with numerous local extremums) and belong to a class of global optimization problems. First, we reduce a rather general fractional programming problem with d.c. functions to solving an equation with a vector parameter that satisfies some nonnegativity assumption. This theorem allows the justified use of the generalized Dinkelbach’s approach for solving fractional programming problems with a d.c. goal function. Based on solving of some d.c. minimization problem, we developed a global search algorithm for fractional programming problems, which was tested on a set of low-dimensional test problems taken from the literature as well as on randomly generated problems with up to 200 variables or 200 terms in the sum.

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  • Gruzdeva, Tatiana V. & Strekalovsky, Alexander S., 2018. "On solving the sum-of-ratios problem," Applied Mathematics and Computation, Elsevier, vol. 318(C), pages 260-269.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:apmaco:v:318:y:2018:i:c:p:260-269
    DOI: 10.1016/j.amc.2017.07.074
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