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This paper proposes Drain-Vortex Optimization (DVO), a population-based metaheuristic for continuous optimization. DVO models each candidate solution as a particle moving in a multi-drain vortex field. Its update rule decomposes motion into…

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This paper surveys the recent attempts at leveraging machine learning to solve constrained optimization problems. It focuses on surveying the work on integrating combinatorial solvers and optimization methods with machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-31 James Kotary , Ferdinando Fioretto , Pascal Van Hentenryck , Bryan Wilder

We propose an approach based on machine learning to solve two-stage linear adaptive robust optimization (ARO) problems with binary here-and-now variables and polyhedral uncertainty sets. We encode the optimal here-and-now decisions, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Dimitris Bertsimas , Cheol Woo Kim

Design optimisation potentially leads to lightweight aircraft structures with lower environmental impact. Due to the high number of design variables and constraints, these problems are ordinarily solved using gradient-based optimisation…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Hauke Maathuis , Roeland De Breuker , Saullo G. P. Castro

Metaheuristic algorithms are becoming an important part of modern optimization. A wide range of metaheuristic algorithms have emerged over the last two decades, and many metaheuristics such as particle swarm optimization are becoming…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-12-04 Xin-She Yang

Recently, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), as known as drone, has become an alternative means of package delivery. Although the drone delivery scheduling has been studied in recent years, most existing models are formulated as a single…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-21 Suttinee Sawadsitang , Dusit Niyato , Puay Siew Tan , Sarana Nutanong

Design problems in industrial engineering often involve a large number of design variables with multiple objectives, under complex nonlinear constraints. The algorithms for multiobjective problems can be significantly different from the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-03-27 Xin-She Yang

Ignoring uncertainty in combinatorial optimization leads to suboptimal decisions in practice. Nevertheless, the focus is often on deterministic combinatorial optimization problems, mainly because they are already challenging enough without…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-13 Joost Berkhout

Metaheuristic algorithms are currently widely used to solve a variety of optimization problems across various industries. This article discusses the application of a metaheuristic algorithm to optimize the hierarchical architecture of an…

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Quantum computing holds transformative potential for optimizing large-scale drone fleet operations, yet its near-term limitations necessitate hybrid approaches blending classical and quantum techniques. This work introduces Quantum Unmanned…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-04-01 James B. Holliday , Darren Blount , Hoang Quan Nguyen , Samee U. Khan , Khoa Luu

This paper addresses the problem of autonomous task allocation by a swarm of autonomous, interactive drones in large-scale, dynamic spatio-temporal environments. When each drone independently determines navigation, sensing, and recharging…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Chuhao Qin , Evangelos Pournaras

Reliability based design optimization (RBDO) problems are important in engineering applications, but it is challenging to solve such problems. In this study, a new resolution method based on the directional Bat Algorithm (dBA) is presented.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-26 Asma Chakri , Xin-She Yang , Rabia Khelif , Mohamed Benouaret

Metaheuristics are universal optimization algorithms which should be used for solving difficult problems, unsolvable by classic approaches. In this paper we aim at constructing novel socio-cognitive metaheuristic based on castes, and apply…

In many robotic tasks, such as autonomous drone racing, the goal is to travel through a set of waypoints as fast as possible. A key challenge for this task is planning the time-optimal trajectory, which is typically solved by assuming…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Yunlong Song , Mats Steinweg , Elia Kaufmann , Davide Scaramuzza

Recent advances in 3D printing and manufacturing of miniaturized robotic hardware and computing are paving the way to build inexpensive and disposable robots. This will have a large impact on several applications including scientific…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-02-18 Luca Carlone , Carlo Pinciroli

A new metaheuristic optimisation algorithm, called Cuckoo Search (CS), was developed recently by Yang and Deb (2009). This paper presents a more extensive comparison study using some standard test functions and newly designed stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-12-24 Xin-She Yang , Suash Deb

In this work we are interested in the construction of numerical methods for high dimensional constrained nonlinear optimization problems by particle-based gradient-free techniques. A consensus-based optimization (CBO) approach combined with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-23 Giacomo Borghi , Michael Herty , Lorenzo Pareschi

Choosing the right system architecture for the problem at hand is challenging due to the large design space and high uncertainty in the early stage of the design process. Formulating the architecting process as an optimization problem may…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-10 Jasper H. Bussemaker , Paul Saves , Nathalie Bartoli , Thierry Lefebvre , Rémi Lafage

In this paper, we propose an alternating optimization method to address a time-optimal trajectory generation problem. Different from the existing solutions, our approach introduces a new formulation that minimizes the overall trajectory…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Wytze A. B. de Vries , Ming Li , Qirui Song , Zhiyong Sun

Metaheuristics have gained great success in academia and practice because their search logic can be applied to any problem with available solution representation, solution quality evaluation, and certain notions of locality. Manually…

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