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Multimodality is one of the biggest difficulties for optimization as local optima are often preventing algorithms from making progress. This does not only challenge local strategies that can get stuck. It also hinders meta-heuristics like…

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The multiresponse surface problem is modelled as one of multiobjective stochastic optimisation, and diverse solutions are proposed. Several crucial differences are highlighted between this approach and others that have been proposed.…

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The goal of multi-objective optimisation is to identify a collection of points which describe the best possible trade-offs between the multiple objectives. In order to solve this vector-valued optimisation problem, practitioners often…

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Recently, the discretization of decision and objective spaces has been discussed in the literature. In some studies, it is shown that the decision space discretization improves the performance of evolutionary multi-objective optimization…

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The paper considers the minimization of a separable convex function subject to linear ascending constraints. The problem arises as the core optimization in several resource allocation scenarios, and is a special case of an optimization of a…

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In this paper, we scale evolutionary algorithms to high-dimensional optimization problems that deceptively possess a low effective dimensionality (certain dimensions do not significantly affect the objective function). To this end, an…

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A variety of clustering criteria has been applied as an objective function in Evolutionary Multi-Objective Clustering approaches (EMOCs). However, most EMOCs do not provide detailed analysis regarding the choice and usage of the objective…

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The paper analyzes the scalability of multiobjective estimation of distribution algorithms (MOEDAs) on a class of boundedly-difficult additively-separable multiobjective optimization problems. The paper illustrates that even if the linkage…

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In practical engineering and optimization, solving multi-objective optimization (MOO) problems typically involves scalarization methods that convert a multi-objective problem into a single-objective one. While effective, these methods often…

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Linear functions play a key role in the runtime analysis of evolutionary algorithms and studies have provided a wide range of new insights and techniques for analyzing evolutionary computation methods. Motivated by studies on separable…

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Evolutionary algorithms have been frequently applied to constrained continuous optimisation problems. We carry out feature based comparisons of different types of evolutionary algorithms such as evolution strategies, differential evolution…

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Chance constrained optimization problems allow to model problems where constraints involving stochastic components should only be violated with a small probability. Evolutionary algorithms have been applied to this scenario and shown to…

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Efficiency in optimisation and search processes persists to be one of the challenges, which affects the performance and use of optimisation algorithms. Utilising a pool of operators instead of a single operator to handle move operations…

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In this short note, we discuss a goal-oriented multiobjective optimization problem for system performance assessment. The objective function for such optimization problem, which is usually a composite of different performance indices…

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In this paper, we propose a novel semi-supervised feature selection framework by mining correlations among multiple tasks and apply it to different multimedia applications. Instead of independently computing the importance of features for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Xiaojun Chang , Yi Yang

In this paper, we consider the algorithms and convergence for a general optimization problem, which has a wide range of applications in image segmentation, topology optimization, flow network formulation, and surface reconstruction. In…

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Structural bias (SB) refers to systematic preferences of an optimisation algorithm for particular regions of the search space that arise independently of the objective function. While SB has been studied extensively in single-objective…

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