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Working with complex, high-level MOEA meta-models such as Multiobjec-tive Optimization Hierarchic Genetic Strategy (MO-mHGS) with multi-deme support usually requires dedicated implementation and configuration for each internal (single-deme)…
The Resource Allocation approach (RA) improves the performance of MOEA/D by maintaining a big population and updating few solutions each generation. However, most of the studies on RA generally focused on the properties of different…
The Horse Herd Optimization Algorithm (HOA) is a new meta-heuristic algorithm based on the behaviors of horses at different ages. The HOA was introduced recently to solve complex and high-dimensional problems. This paper proposes a binary…
Recent decades have witnessed great advancements in multiobjective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs) for multiobjective optimization problems (MOPs). However, these progressively improved MOEAs have not necessarily been equipped with scalable…
Exploiting knowledge about the structure of a problem can greatly benefit the efficiency and scalability of an Evolutionary Algorithm (EA). Model-Based EAs (MBEAs) are capable of doing this by explicitly modeling the problem structure. The…
An integrated optimization method based on the constrained multi-objective evolutionary algorithm (MOEA) and non-intrusive polynomial chaos expansion (PCE) is proposed, which solves robust multi-objective optimization problems under…
Variable division and optimization (D\&O) is a frequently utilized algorithm design paradigm in Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs). A D\&O EA divides a variable into partial variables and then optimize them respectively. A complicated problem is…
We propose a novel surrogate-assisted Evolutionary Algorithm for solving expensive combinatorial optimization problems. We integrate a surrogate model, which is used for fitness value estimation, into a state-of-the-art P3-like variant of…
We consider the problem of finite-horizon sequential experimental design to solve multi-objective optimization (MOO) of expensive black-box objective functions. This problem arises in many real-world applications, including materials…
Many crucial scientific problems involve designing novel molecules with desired properties, which can be formulated as a black-box optimization problem over the discrete chemical space. In practice, multiple conflicting objectives and…
Evolutionary algorithms based on modeling the statistical dependencies (interactions) between the variables have been proposed to solve a wide range of complex problems. These algorithms learn and sample probabilistic graphical models able…
In solving multi-modal, multi-objective optimization problems (MMOPs), the objective is not only to find a good representation of the Pareto-optimal front (PF) in the objective space but also to find all equivalent Pareto-optimal subsets…
The present survey provides the state-of-the-art of research, copiously devoted to Evolutionary Approach (EAs) for clustering exemplified with a diversity of evolutionary computations. The Survey provides a nomenclature that highlights some…
The expected improvement algorithm (or efficient global optimization) aims for global continuous optimization with a limited budget of black-box function evaluations. It is based on a statistical model of the function learned from previous…
Although the population size is an important parameter in evolutionary multi-objective optimization (EMO), little is known about its influence on preference-based EMO (PBEMO). The effectiveness of an unbounded external archive (UA) in PBEMO…
The global simple evolutionary multi-objective optimizer (GSEMO) is a simple, yet often effective multi-objective evolutionary algorithm (MOEA). By only maintaining non-dominated solutions, it has a variable population size that…
Recent advances in a generative neural network model extend the development of data augmentation methods. However, the augmentation methods based on the modern generative models fail to achieve notable performance for class imbalance data…
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been widely used in urban missions, and proper planning of UAV paths can improve mission efficiency while reducing the risk of potential third-party impact. Existing work has considered all efficiency…
In the area of multi-objective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs), there is a trend of using an archive to store non-dominated solutions generated during the search. This is because 1) MOEAs may easily end up with the final population…
Optimizing multiple, non-preferential objectives for mixed-variable, expensive black-box problems is important in many areas of engineering and science. The expensive, noisy, black-box nature of these problems makes them ideal candidates…