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Large-scale optimization problems that involve thousands of decision variables have extensively arisen from various industrial areas. As a powerful optimization tool for many real-world applications, evolutionary algorithms (EAs) fail to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Peng Yang , Ke Tang , Xin Yao

Constrained multi-objective optimization problems (CMOPs) are ubiquitous in real-world engineering optimization scenarios. A key issue in constrained multi-objective optimization is to strike a balance among convergence, diversity and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Xinyu Shan , Ke Li

Optimization problems with more than one objective consist in a very attractive topic for researchers due to its applicability in real-world situations. Over the years, the research effort in the Computational Intelligence field resulted in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-25 F. B. Lima Neto , I. M. C. Albuquerque , J. B. Monteiro Filho

Unit commitment (UC) is a fundamental problem in the day-ahead electricity market, and it is critical to solve UC problems efficiently. Mathematical optimization techniques like dynamic programming, Lagrangian relaxation, and mixed-integer…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-10 Jingtao Qin , Yuanqi Gao , Mikhail Bragin , Nanpeng Yu

This paper proposes a novel multi-unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) assisted collaborative mobile edge computing (MEC) framework, where the computing tasks of terminal devices (TDs) can be decomposed into serial or parallel sub-tasks and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Zhenyu Zhao , Xiaoxia Xu , Tiankui Zhang , Junjie Li , Yuanwei Liu

The unit commitment (UC) problem stands as a critical optimization challenge in the electrical power industry. It is classified as NP-hard, placing it among the most intractable problems to solve. This paper introduces a novel hybrid…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-17 Bruna Salgado , André Sequeira , Luis Paulo Santos

The unit commitment problem (UC) is an optimization problem concerning the operation of electrical generators. Many algorithms have been proposed for the UC and in recent years a more decentralized approach, by solving the UC with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-23 Rogier Hans Wuijts , Marjan van den Akker , Machteld van den Broek

Multiobjective optimization remains challenging for many scientific and engineering problems due to the need to balance convergence, diversity, and computational efficiency across high-dimensional objective landscapes. This work presents…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Omer F. Erdem , Dean Price , Paul Seurin , Majdi I. Radaideh

The decomposition-based method has been recognized as a major approach for multi-objective optimization. It decomposes a multi-objective optimization problem into several single-objective optimization subproblems, each of which is usually…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-04-11 Mengyuan Wu , Ke Li , Sam Kwong , Qingfu Zhang

An important challenge in reinforcement learning, including evolutionary robotics, is to solve multimodal problems, where agents have to act in qualitatively different ways depending on the circumstances. Because multimodal problems are…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Joost Huizinga , Jeff Clune

Real-world and complex problems have usually many objective functions that have to be optimized all at once. Over the last decades, Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms (MOEAs) are designed to solve this kind of problems. Nevertheless,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Cristian Ramirez-Atencia , Sanaz Mostaghim , David Camacho

Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) are the preferred method for solving black-box multi-objective optimization problems, but when gradients of the objective functions are available, it is not straightforward to exploit these efficiently. By…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-23 Timo M. Deist , Stefanus C. Maree , Tanja Alderliesten , Peter A. N. Bosman

Aggregation functions largely determine the convergence and diversity performance of multi-objective evolutionary algorithms in decomposition methods. Nevertheless, the traditional Tchebycheff function does not consider the matching…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-08 Xiaojun Zhou , Yuan Gao , Shengxiang Yang , Chunhua Yang , Jiajia Zhou

This paper proposes a global optimization method for it ensures finding good solutions while solving the unit commitment (UC) problem with carbon emission trading (CET). This method con-sists of two parts. In the first part, a sequence of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-28 Linfeng Yang , Wei Li , Guo Chen , Beihua Fang , Chunming Tang , Zhaoyang Dong

In this paper, a novel mutation operator of differential evolution algorithm is proposed. A new algorithm called divergence differential evolution algorithm (DDEA) is developed by combining the new mutation operator with divergence operator…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2011-08-18 Yifeng Gao , Shuhong Gong , Ge Zhao

The field of multiobjective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs) often emphasizes its popularity for optimization problems with conflicting objectives. However, it is still theoretically unknown how MOEAs perform compared with typical approaches…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Weijie Zheng

Multi-objective orienteering problems (MO-OPs) are classical multi-objective routing problems and have received a lot of attention in the past decades. This study seeks to solve MO-OPs through a problem-decomposition framework, that is, a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Wei Liu , Rui Wang , Tao Zhang , Kaiwen Li , Wenhua Li , Hisao Ishibuchi

The Unit Commitment (UC) problem consists in controlling a large fleet of heterogeneous electricity production units in order to minimize the total production cost while satisfying consumer demand. Electric Vehicles (EVs) are used as a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-17 Hélène Arvis , Olivier Beaude , Nicolas Gast , Stéphane Gaubert , Bruno Gaujal

Evolutionary optimization is a generic population-based metaheuristic that can be adapted to solve a wide variety of optimization problems and has proven very effective for combinatorial optimization problems. However, the potential of this…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Saaduddin Mahmud , Moumita Choudhury , Md. Mosaddek Khan , Long Tran-Thanh , Nicholas R. Jennings

Real-world optimization problems often involve stochastic and dynamic components. Evolutionary algorithms are particularly effective in these scenarios, as they can easily adapt to uncertain and changing environments but often uncertainty…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Ishara Hewa Pathiranage , Frank Neumann , Denis Antipov , Aneta Neumann