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Several fundamental problems in science and engineering consist of global optimization tasks involving unknown high-dimensional (black-box) functions that map a set of controllable variables to the outcomes of an expensive experiment.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Mohamed Aziz Bhouri , Michael Joly , Robert Yu , Soumalya Sarkar , Paris Perdikaris

In the past few decades, many multiobjective evolutionary optimization algorithms (MOEAs) have been proposed to find a finite set of approximate Pareto solutions for a given problem in a single run, each with its own structure. However, in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Xi Lin , Xiaoyuan Zhang , Zhiyuan Yang , Qingfu Zhang

Modeling and predicting the dynamics of complex multiscale systems remains a significant challenge due to their inherent nonlinearities and sensitivity to initial conditions, as well as limitations of traditional machine learning methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Elias Al Ghazal , Jad Mounayer , Beatriz Moya , Sebastian Rodriguez , Chady Ghnatios , Francisco Chinesta

Practical optimization problems may contain different kinds of difficulties that are often not tractable if one relies on a particular optimization method. Different optimization approaches offer different strengths that are good at…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Ankur Sinha , Dhaval Pujara , Hemant Kumar Singh

Traditional multiobjective optimization problems (MOPs) are insufficiently equipped for scenarios involving multiple decision makers (DMs), which are prevalent in many practical applications. These scenarios are categorized as multiparty…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Kesheng Chen , Wenjian Luo , Qi Zhou , Yujiang liu , Peilan Xu , Yuhui Shi

This paper presents a novel partially distributed outer approximation algorithm, named PaDOA, for solving a class of structured mixed integer convex programming (MICP) problems to global optimality. The proposed scheme uses an iterative…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-20 Alexander Murray , Timm Faulwasser , Veit Hagenmeyer , Mario E. Villanueva , Boris Houska

Evolutionary algorithms have been frequently applied to constrained continuous optimisation problems. We carry out feature based comparisons of different types of evolutionary algorithms such as evolution strategies, differential evolution…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-09-24 Shayan Poursoltan , Frank Neumann

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…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Yuji Takubo , Masahiro Kanazaki

Many real-world optimisation problems involve dynamic and stochastic components. While problems with multiple interacting components are omnipresent in inherently dynamic domains like supply-chain optimisation and logistics, most research…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Ragav Sachdeva , Frank Neumann , Markus Wagner

This paper proposes group-based distributed optimization (DO) algorithms on top of intelligent partitioning for the optimal power flow (OPF) problems. Radial partitioning of the graph of a network is introduced as a systematic way to split…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-07 Mehdi Karimi

Finding a large set of optima in a multimodal optimization landscape is a challenging task. Classical population-based evolutionary algorithms typically converge only to a single solution. While this can be counteracted by applying niching…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Benjamin Doerr , Martin S. Krejca

Computing diverse solutions for a given problem, in particular evolutionary diversity optimisation (EDO), is a hot research topic in the evolutionary computation community. This paper studies the Boolean satisfiability problem (SAT) in the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Adel Nikfarjam , Ralf Rothenberger , Frank Neumann , Tobias Friedrich

Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) have been well acknowledged as a promising paradigm for solving optimisation problems with multiple conflicting objectives in the sense that they are able to locate a set of diverse approximations of Pareto…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-06-17 Jianyong Sun , Hu Zhang , Aimin Zhou , Qingfu Zhang

In this paper, a novel mutation operator of differential evolution algorithm is proposed. A new algorithm called divergence differential evolution algorithm (DDEA) is developed by combining the new mutation operator with divergence operator…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2011-08-18 Yifeng Gao , Shuhong Gong , Ge Zhao

In this paper, we propose a parallel multiobjective evolutionary algorithm called Parallel Criterion-based Partitioning MOEA (PCPMOEA), with an application to the Mutliobjective Knapsack Problem (MOKP). The suggested search strategy is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-07 Kantour Nedjmeddine , Bouroubi Sadek , Chaabane Djamel

Optimization problems find widespread use in both single-objective and multi-objective scenarios. In practical applications, users aspire for solutions that converge to the region of interest (ROI) along the Pareto front (PF). While the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Tian Huang , Shengbo Wang , Ke Li

Multi-objective optimization is a widely studied problem in diverse fields, such as engineering and finance, that seeks to identify a set of non-dominated solutions that provide optimal trade-offs among competing objectives. However, the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Arash Heidari , Sebastian Rojas Gonzalez , Tom Dhaene , Ivo Couckuyt

Multiobjective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs) are major methods for solving multiobjective optimization problems (MOPs). Many MOEAs have been proposed in the past decades, of which the search operators need a carefully handcrafted design…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Fei Liu , Xi Lin , Zhenkun Wang , Shunyu Yao , Xialiang Tong , Mingxuan Yuan , Qingfu Zhang

This paper studies the distributed optimization problem with possibly nonidentical local constraints, where its global objective function is composed of $N$ convex functions. The aim is to solve the considered optimization problem in a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-26 Hongzhe Liu , Wenwu Yu , Guanghui Wen , Wei Xing Zheng

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