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Dynamic multimodal multiobjective optimization presents the dual challenge of simultaneously tracking multiple equivalent pareto optimal sets and maintaining population diversity in time-varying environments. However, existing dynamic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Li Yan , Bolun Liu , Chao Li , Jing Liang , Kunjie Yu , Caitong Yue , Xuzhao Chai , Boyang Qu

Neighborhood search operators are critical to the performance of Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms (MOEAs) and rely heavily on expert design. Although recent LLM-based Automated Heuristic Design (AHD) methods have made notable…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Junhao Qiu , Xin Chen , Liang Ge , Liyong Lin , Zhichao Lu , Qingfu Zhang

Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) have emerged as a powerful framework for optimization, especially for black-box optimization. Existing evolutionary algorithms struggle to comprehend and effectively utilize task-specific information for…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Kai Wu , Xiaobin Li , Penghui Liu , Jing Liu

Population diversity plays a key role in evolutionary algorithms that enables global exploration and avoids premature convergence. This is especially more crucial in dynamic optimization in which diversity can ensure that the population…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Maryam Hasani-Shoreh , Frank Neumann

Evolutionary algorithms have been successfully applied to a variety of optimisation problems in stationary environments. However, many real world optimisation problems are set in dynamic environments where the success criteria shifts…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-10-11 Matthew Hughes

In supply chain management, decision-making often involves balancing multiple conflicting objectives, such as cost reduction, service level improvement, and environmental sustainability. Traditional multi-objective optimization methods,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Niki Kotecha , Ehecatl Antonio del Rio Chanona

This paper demonstrates that simple yet important characteristics of coevolution can occur in evolutionary algorithms when only a few conditions are met. We find that interaction-based fitness measurements such as fitness (linear) ranking…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2009-07-03 James M Whitacre

Multi-modal multi-objective optimization problems (MMMOPs) have multiple subsets within the Pareto-optimal Set, each independently mapping to the same Pareto-Front. Prevalent multi-objective evolutionary algorithms are not purely designed…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Monalisa Pal , Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay

Population-based evolutionary algorithms have great potential to handle multiobjective optimisation problems. However, these algorithms depends largely on problem characteristics, and there is a need to improve their performance for a wider…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-17 Shouyong Jiang , Hongru Li , Jinglei Guo , Mingjun Zhong , Shengxiang Yang , Marcus Kaiser , Natalio Krasnogor

In this paper, an evolutionary many-objective optimization algorithm based on corner solution search (MaOEA-CS) was proposed. MaOEA-CS implicitly contains two phases: the exploitative search for the most important boundary optimal solutions…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-06-11 Xinye Cai , Haoran Sun , Chunyang Zhu , Zhenyu Li , Qingfu Zhang

Cooperative coevolutionary algorithms (CCEAs) divide a given problem in to a number of subproblems and use an evolutionary algorithm to solve each subproblem. This short paper is concerned with the scenario under which only a single, global…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Larry Bull , Haixia Liu

Since around 2000, it has been considered that elitist evolutionary multi-objective optimization algorithms (EMOAs) always outperform non-elitist EMOAs. This paper revisits the performance of non-elitist EMOAs for bi-objective continuous…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Ryoji Tanabe , Hisao Ishibuchi

This paper proposes a push and pull search (PPS) framework for solving constrained multi-objective optimization problems (CMOPs). To be more specific, the proposed PPS divides the search process into two different stages, including the push…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Zhun Fan , Wenji Li , Xinye Cai , Hui Li , Caimin Wei , Qingfu Zhang , Kalyanmoy Deb , Erik D. Goodman

The study of semantics in Genetic Program (GP) deals with the behaviour of a program given a set of inputs and has been widely reported in helping to promote diversity in GP for a range of complex problems ultimately improving evolutionary…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Edgar Galván , Fergal Stapleton

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

Even if a Multi-modal Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithm (MMOEA) is designed to find solutions well spread over all locally optimal approximation sets of a Multi-modal Multi-objective Optimization Problem (MMOP), there is a risk that…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Renzo J. Scholman , Anton Bouter , Leah R. M. Dickhoff , Tanja Alderliesten , Peter A. N. Bosman

In evolutionary algorithms, a preselection operator aims to select the promising offspring solutions from a candidate offspring set. It is usually based on the estimated or real objective values of the candidate offspring solutions. In a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-08-04 Jinyuan Zhang , Aimin Zhou , Ke Tang , Guixu Zhang

In this paper we consider multi-objective optimization problems over a box. The problem is very relevant and several computational approaches have been proposed in the literature. They broadly fall into two main classes: evolutionary…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-08 Matteo Lapucci , Pierluigi Mansueto , Fabio Schoen

Multiobjective optimization (MOO) is prevalent in numerous applications, in which a Pareto front (PF) is constructed to display optima under various preferences. Previous methods commonly utilize the set of Pareto objectives (particles on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Xiaoyuan Zhang , Xi Lin , Yichi Zhang , Yifan Chen , Qingfu Zhang

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