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This study concentrates on clustering problems and aims to find compact clusters that are informative regarding the outcome variable. The main goal is partitioning data points so that observations in each cluster are similar and the outcome…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-01-27 Zahra Ghasemi , Hadi Akbarzadeh Khorshidi , Uwe Aickelin

This thesis investigates the use of problem-specific knowledge to enhance a genetic algorithm approach to multiple-choice optimisation problems.It shows that such information can significantly enhance performance, but that the choice of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2010-07-05 Uwe Aickelin

Dynamic multi-objective optimization problems (DMOPs) remain a challenge to be settled, because of conflicting objective functions change over time. In recent years, transfer learning has been proven to be a kind of effective approach in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Zhenzhong Wang , Min Jiang , Xing Gao , Liang Feng , Weizhen Hu , Kay Chen Tan

Flower pollination is an intriguing process in the natural world. Its evolutionary characteristics can be used to design new optimization algorithms. In this paper, we propose a new algorithm, namely, flower pollination algorithm, inspired…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-12-20 Xin-She Yang

The range of applications of traditional optimization methods are limited by the features of the object variables, and of both the objective and the constraint functions. In contrast, population-based algorithms whose optimization…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Mauro S. Innocente , Johann Sienz

Multiobjective feature selection seeks to determine the most discriminative feature subset by simultaneously optimizing two conflicting objectives: minimizing the number of selected features and the classification error rate. The goal is to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Zhenxing Zhang , Qianxiang An , Yilei Wang , Chenfeng Wu , Baoling Dong , Chunjie Zhou

This paper combines the idea of a hierarchical distributed genetic algorithm with different inter-agent partnering strategies. Cascading clusters of sub-populations are built from bottom up, with higher-level sub-populations optimising…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2010-07-05 Uwe Aickelin

One of the major distinguishing features of the dynamic multiobjective optimization problems (DMOPs) is the optimization objectives will change over time, thus tracking the varying Pareto-optimal front becomes a challenge. One of the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-11-21 Min Jiang , Zhongqiang Huang , Liming Qiu , Wenzhen Huang , Gary G. Yen

Evolutionary algorithm research and applications began over 50 years ago. Like other artificial intelligence techniques, evolutionary algorithms will likely see increased use and development due to the increased availability of computation,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Andrew N. Sloss , Steven Gustafson

We apply genetic programming techniques to the `shepherding' problem, in which a group of one type of animal (sheep dogs) attempts to control the movements of a second group of animals (sheep) obeying flocking behavior. Our genetic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-03-22 Joshua Brulé , Kevin Engel , Nick Fung , Isaac Julien

Multi-objective optimization problems (MOPs) require the simultaneous optimization of conflicting objectives. Real-world MOPs often exhibit complex characteristics, including high-dimensional decision spaces, many objectives, or…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Haokai Hong , Liang Feng , Min Jiang , Kay Chen Tan

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…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Frank Neumann , Carsten Witt

The compact genetic algorithm is an Estimation of Distribution Algorithm for binary optimisation problems. Unlike the standard Genetic Algorithm, no cross-over or mutation is involved. Instead, the compact Genetic Algorithm uses a virtual…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Simon M. Lucas , Jialin Liu , Diego Pérez-Liébana

Genetic algorithms are heuristic optimization techniques inspired by Darwinian evolution, which are characterized by successfully finding robust solutions for optimization problems. Here, we propose a subroutine-based quantum genetic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-07 Rubén Ibarrondo , Giancarlo Gatti , Mikel Sanz

Evolutionary algorithms have been successful in solving multi-objective optimization problems (MOPs). However, as a class of population-based search methodology, evolutionary algorithms require a large number of evaluations of the objective…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Xueming Yan , Yaochu Jin

The development of efficient and effective evolutionary multi-objective optimization (EMO) algorithms has been an active research topic in the evolutionary computation community. Over the years, many EMO algorithms have been proposed. The…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Lie Meng Pang , Hisao Ishibuchi , Ke Shang

We introduce Genetic AI, a novel method for multi-objective optimization without external parameters or predefined weights. The method can be applied to all problems that can be formulated in matrix form and allows for a data-less training…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Philipp Wissgott

In recent years, multimodal multiobjective optimization algorithms (MMOAs) based on evolutionary computation have been widely studied. However, existing MMOAs are mainly tested on benchmark function sets such as the 2019 IEEE Congress on…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Zhiqiu Chen , Zong-Gan Chen , Yuncheng Jiang , Zhi-Hui Zhan

Recently, it has been proven that evolutionary algorithms produce good results for a wide range of combinatorial optimization problems. Some of the considered problems are tackled by evolutionary algorithms that use a representation which…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-01-18 Benjamin Doerr , Anton Eremeev , Frank Neumann , Madeleine Theile , Christian Thyssen

The performance of multiobjective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs) varies across problems, making it hard to develop new algorithms or apply existing ones to new problems. To simplify the development and application of new multiobjective…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Yuri Lavinas , Marcelo Ladeira , Gabriela Ochoa , Claus Aranha