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Data generation and analysis is a fundamental aspect of many industries and disciplines, from strategic decision making in business to research in the physical and social sciences. However, data generated using software and algorithms can…

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More and more, optimization methods are used to find diverse solution sets. We compare solution diversity in multi-objective optimization, multimodal optimization, and quality diversity in a simple domain. We show that multiobjective…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Alexander Hagg , Mike Preuss , Alexander Asteroth , Thomas Bäck

Automated hyperparameter optimization (HPO) has gained great popularity and is an important ingredient of most automated machine learning frameworks. The process of designing HPO algorithms, however, is still an unsystematic and manual…

A variety of optimization algorithms have been developed to solve engineering design problems in which the solution space is too large to manually determine the optimal solution. The Modular Optimization Framework (MOF) was developed to…

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Data and knowledge representation are fundamental concepts in machine learning. The quality of the representation impacts the performance of the learning model directly. Feature learning transforms or enhances raw data to structures that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Filipe Alves Neto Verri , Renato Tinós , Liang Zhao

Ongoing progress in computational intelligence (CI) has led to an increased desire to apply CI techniques for the purpose of improving software engineering processes, particularly software testing. Existing state-of-the-art automated…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Jarrod Goschen , Anna Sergeevna Bosman , Stefan Gruner

Neural architecture search (NAS) has been studied extensively and has grown to become a research field with substantial impact. While classical single-objective NAS searches for the architecture with the best performance, multi-objective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Lennart Schneider , Florian Pfisterer , Paul Kent , Juergen Branke , Bernd Bischl , Janek Thomas

Multidimensional genetic programming represents candidate solutions as sets of programs, and thereby provides an interesting framework for exploiting building block identification. Towards this goal, we investigate the use of machine…

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The design phase plays a vital role than all other phases in the software development. Software Architecture has to meet both the functional and non-functional quality requirements. The Evaluation of Architecture has to be performed, so…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-06-18 A. Meiappane , B. Chithra , Prasanna Venkataesan

Several approaches have recently used automated techniques to generate architecture design alternatives by means of optimization techniques. These approaches aim at improving an initial architecture with respect to quality aspects, such as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Vittorio Cortellessa , J. Andres Diaz-Pace , Daniele Di Pompeo , Michele Tucci

Refactoring is a crucial technique for improving the efficiency and maintainability of software by restructuring its internal design while preserving its external behavior. While classical programs have benefited from various refactoring…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Jianjun Zhao

Contemporary intelligent systems incorporate software components, including machine learning components. As they grow in complexity and data volume such machine learning systems face unique quality challenges like scalability and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Simeon Emanuilov , Aleksandar Dimov

For classification problems, feature extraction is a crucial process which aims to find a suitable data representation that increases the performance of the machine learning algorithm. According to the curse of dimensionality theorem, the…

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Particle track reconstruction, in which the trajectories of charged particles are determined, is a critical and time consuming component of the full event reconstruction chain. The underlying software is complex and consists of a number of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-01-24 Rocky Bala Garg , Elyssa Hofgard , Lauren Tompkins , Heather Gray

Refactoring is a change made to the internal structure of software to make it easier to understand and cheaper to modify without changing its observable behaviour. A database refactoring is a small change to the database schema which…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2010-09-09 Patrick O'Beirne

Mathematical models simulate various events under different conditions, enabling an early overview of the system to be implemented in practice, reducing the waste of resources and in less time. In project optimization, these models play a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-11 Gustavo Barbosa Libotte , Fran Sérgio Lobato , Francisco Duarte Moura Neto , Gustavo Mendes Platt

The field of engineering is shaped by the tools and methods used to solve problems. Optimization is one such class of powerful, robust, and effective engineering tools proven over decades of use. Within just a few years, generative…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Lyle Regenwetter , Cyril Picard , Amin Heyrani Nobari , Akash Srivastava , Faez Ahmed

The initial phase in real world engineering optimization and design is a process of discovery in which not all requirements can be made in advance, or are hard to formalize. Quality diversity algorithms, which produce a variety of high…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-17 Alexander Hagg , Alexander Asteroth , Thomas Bäck

Many real-world applications require decision-makers to assess the quality of solutions while considering multiple conflicting objectives. Obtaining good approximation sets for highly constrained many-objective problems is often a difficult…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Rodrigo Lankaites Pinheiro , Dario Landa-Silva , Wasakorn Laesanklang , Ademir Aparecido Constantino

Electric machine design optimization is a computationally expensive multi-objective optimization problem. While the objectives require time-consuming finite element analysis, optimization constraints can often be based on mathematical…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Bhuvan Khoshoo , Julian Blank , Thang Q. Pham , Kalyanmoy Deb , Shanelle N. Foster