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The potential benefit of migrating software design from Structured to Object Oriented Paradigm is manifolded including modularity, manageability and extendability. This design migration should be automated as it will reduce the time…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-01-04 Md. Selim , Saeed Siddik , Alim Ul Gias , M. Abdullah-Al-Wadud , Shah Mostafa Khaled

In this work, we propose a heuristic genetic algorithm (GA) for pruning convolutional neural networks (CNNs) according to the multi-objective trade-off among error, computation and sparsity. In our experiments, we apply our approach to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-05 Chuanguang Yang , Zhulin An , Chao Li , Boyu Diao , Yongjun Xu

Software quality estimation is a challenging and time-consuming activity, and models are crucial to face the complexity of such activity on modern software applications. In this context, software refactoring is a crucial activity within…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Vittorio Cortellessa , Daniele Di Pompeo , Vincenzo Stoico , Michele Tucci

Genetic algorithm (GA) is a stochastic metaheuristic process consisting on the evolution of a population of candidate solutions for a given optimization problem. By extension, multipopulation genetic algorithm (MPGA) aims for efficiency by…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-07 Bruno Messias , Bruno W. D. Morais

Query plans are compared according to multiple cost metrics in multi-objective query optimization. The goal is to find the set of Pareto plans realizing optimal cost tradeoffs for a given query. So far, only algorithms with exponential…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-03-02 Immanuel Trummer , Christoph Koch

Together with the NSGA-II and SMS-EMOA, the strength Pareto evolutionary algorithm 2 (SPEA2) is one of the most prominent dominance-based multi-objective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs). Different from the NSGA-II, it does not employ the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Yasser Alghouass , Benjamin Doerr , Martin S. Krejca , Mohammed Lagmah

This presented study provides a novel analysis of scholarly literature on constraint handling techniques for single-objective and multi-objective population-based algorithms according to the most relevant journals, keywords, authors, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-29 Iman Rahimi , Amir H. Gandomi , Fang Chen , Efren Mezura-Montes

Elitism, which constructs the new population by preserving best solutions out of the old population and newly-generated solutions, has been a default way for population update since its introduction into multi-objective evolutionary…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Zimin Liang , Miqing Li , Per Kristian Lehre

The NSGA-III algorithm relies on uniformly distributed reference points to promote diversity in many-objective optimization problems. However, this strategy may underperform when facing irregular Pareto fronts, where certain vectors remain…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Lucas R. C. Farias , Abimael J. F. Santos , Matheus R. B. Nobre

The rising demand for Large Language Model (LLM) inference services has intensified pressure on computational resources, resulting in latency and cost challenges. This paper introduces a novel routing algorithm based on the Non-dominated…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Shibo Yu , Mohammad Goudarzi , Adel Nadjaran Toosi

We present a multi-objective evolutionary optimization algorithm that uses Gaussian process (GP) regression-based models to select trial solutions in a multi-generation iterative procedure. In each generation, a surrogate model is…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Xiaobiao Huang , Minghao Song , Zhe Zhang

The increasing complexity of fog computing environments calls for efficient resource optimization techniques. In this paper, we propose and evaluate three distributed designs of a genetic algorithm (GA) for resource optimization in fog…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Carlos Guerrero , Isaac Lera , Carlos Juiz

NSGA-III is a prominent algorithm in evolutionary many-objective optimization. It is particularly well suited for optimizing problems with more than three objectives, distinguishing it from the classical NSGA-II. However, theoretical…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Andre Opris

This paper deals with discrete topology optimization and describes the modification of a single-objective algorithm into its multi-objective counterpart. The result is a significant increase in the optimization speed and quality of the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Petr Kadlec , Miloslav Capek

One of the key difficulties in using estimation-of-distribution algorithms is choosing the population size(s) appropriately: Too small values lead to genetic drift, which can cause enormous difficulties. In the regime with no genetic drift,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Benjamin Doerr , Weijie Zheng

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

Predicting the cheapest sample size for the optimal stratification in multivariate survey design is a problem in cases where the population frame is large. A solution exists that iteratively searches for the minimum sample size necessary to…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-06-18 Mervyn O'Luing , Steven Prestwich , S. Armagan Tarim

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

In the field of evolutionary multi-objective optimization, the approximation of the Pareto front (PF) is achieved by utilizing a collection of representative candidate solutions that exhibit desirable convergence and diversity. Although…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Peng Chen , Jing Liang , Kangjia Qiao , Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam Suganthan , Xuanxuan Ban

Bayesian Networks have been widely used in the last decades in many fields, to describe statistical dependencies among random variables. In general, learning the structure of such models is a problem with considerable theoretical interest…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-22 Paolo Cazzaniga , Marco S. Nobile , Daniele Ramazzotti