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Distributed Constraint Optimization Problems (DCOPs) are a widely studied class of optimization problems in which interaction between a set of cooperative agents are modeled as a set of constraints. DCOPs are NP-hard and significant effort…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Saaduddin Mahmud , Md. Mosaddek Khan , Nicholas R. Jennings

Distributed Constraint Optimization Problems (DCOPs) are a widely studied framework for coordinating interactions in cooperative multi-agent systems. In classical DCOPs, variables owned by agents are assumed to be discrete. However, in many…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Moumita Choudhury , Amit Sarker , Md. Mosaddek Khan , William Yeoh

Distributed Constraint Optimization Problems (DCOPs) are an important subclass of combinatorial optimization problems, where information and controls are distributed among multiple autonomous agents. Previously, Machine Learning (ML) has…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Yanchen Deng , Shufeng Kong , Bo An

Solving constrained multi-objective optimization problems (CMOPs) is a challenging task. While many practical algorithms have been developed to tackle CMOPs, real-world scenarios often present cases where the constraint functions are…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Weixiong Huang , Rui Wang , Tao Zhang , Sheng Qi , Ling Wang

This paper proposes a novel constraint-handling mechanism named angle-based constrained dominance principle (ACDP) embedded in a decomposition-based multi-objective evolutionary algorithm (MOEA/D) to solve constrained multi-objective…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Zhun Fan , Yi Fang , Wenji Li , Xinye Cai , Caimin Wei , Erik Goodman

A number of problems in relational Artificial Intelligence can be viewed as Stochastic Constraint Optimization Problems (SCOPs). These are constraint optimization problems that involve objectives or constraints with a stochastic component.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Anna L. D. Latour , Behrouz Babaki , Siegfried Nijssen

Differential evolution (DE) has competitive performance on constrained optimization problems (COPs), which targets at searching for global optimal solution without violating the constraints. Generally, researchers pay more attention on…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-14 Yuan Fu , Hu Wang , Meng-Zhu Yang

In this paper we present a dynamic programing approach to stochastic optimal control problems with dynamic, time-consistent risk constraints. Constrained stochastic optimal control problems, which naturally arise when one has to consider…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-11-24 Yin-Lam Chow , Marco Pavone

The field of Distributed Constraint Optimization has gained momentum in recent years thanks to its ability to address various applications related to multi-agent cooperation. While techniques to solve Distributed Constraint Optimization…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-02-24 William Kluegel , Muhammad Aamir Iqbal , Ferdinando Fioretto , William Yeoh , Enrico Pontelli

In this paper we deal with stochastic optimization problems where the data distributions change in response to the decision variables. Traditionally, the study of optimization problems with decision-dependent distributions has assumed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-05 Zifan Wang , Changxin Liu , Thomas Parisini , Michael M. Zavlanos , Karl H. Johansson

Distributionally robust optimal control (DROC) is gaining interest. This study presents a reformulation method for discrete DROC (DDROC) problems to design optimal control policies under a worst-case distributional uncertainty. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-22 Yuma Shida , Yuji Ito

Multi-objective optimization problems with constraints (CMOPs) are generally considered more challenging than those without constraints. This in part can be attributed to the creation of infeasible regions generated by the constraint…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Hanan Alsouly , Michael Kirley , Mario Andrés Muñoz

Stochastic optimization problems often involve data distributions that change in reaction to the decision variables. This is the case for example when members of the population respond to a deployed classifier by manipulating their features…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-15 Dmitriy Drusvyatskiy , Lin Xiao

Dynamic Optimization Problems (DOPs) are characterized by changes in the fitness landscape that can occur at any time and are common in real world applications. The main issues to be considered include detecting the change in the fitness…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Alexandre Mascarenhas , Yuri Lavinas , Claus Aranha

Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) are being routinely applied for a variety of optimization tasks, and real-parameter optimization in the presence of constraints is one such important area. During constrained optimization EAs often create…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-04-20 Nikhil Padhye , Pulkit Mittal , Kalyanmoy Deb

Dynamic optimisation occurs in a variety of real-world problems. To tackle these problems, evolutionary algorithms have been extensively used due to their effectiveness and minimum design effort. However, for dynamic problems, extra…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Maryam Hasani Shoreh , Renato Hermoza Aragonés , Frank Neumann

Constrained multi-objective optimization problems (CMOPs) pervade real-world applications in science, engineering, and design. Constraint violation has been a building block in designing evolutionary multi-objective optimization algorithms…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Shuang Li , Ke Li , Wei Li , Ming Yang

This contribution examines optimization problems that involve stochastic dominance constraints. These problems have uncountably many constraints. We develop methods to solve the optimization problem by reducing the constraints to a finite…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-27 Rajmadan Lakshmanan , Alois Pichler , Miloš Kopa

In robotic deformable object manipulation (DOM) applications, constraints arise commonly from environments and task-specific requirements. Enabling DOM with constraints is therefore crucial for its deployment in practice. However, dealing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Jing Huang , Xiangyu Chu , Xin Ma , Kwok Wai Samuel Au

The multiple knapsack problem (MKP) generalizes the classical knapsack problem by assigning items to multiple knapsacks subject to capacity constraints. It is used to model many real-world resource allocation and scheduling problems. In…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Ishara Hewa Pathiranage , Aneta Neumann