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Constraint handling plays a key role in solving realistic complex optimization problems. Though intensively discussed in the last few decades, existing constraint handling techniques predominantly rely on human experts' designs, which more…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Qianhao Zhu , Sijie Ma , Zeyuan Ma , Hongshu Guo , Yue-Jiao Gong

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

An important challenge in reinforcement learning, including evolutionary robotics, is to solve multimodal problems, where agents have to act in qualitatively different ways depending on the circumstances. Because multimodal problems are…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Joost Huizinga , Jeff Clune

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

Constrained multi-objective optimization problems (CMOPs) frequently arise in real-world applications where multiple conflicting objectives must be optimized under complex constraints. Existing dual-population two-stage algorithms have…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Zhen-Song Chen , Hong-Wei Ding , Xian-Jia Wang , Witold Pedrycz

Multi-objective optimization problems with constraints (CMOPs) are generally considered more challenging than those without constraints. This in part can be attributed to the creation of infeasible regions generated by the constraint…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Hanan Alsouly , Michael Kirley , Mario Andrés Muñoz

The research area of evolutionary multiobjective optimization (EMO) is reaching better understandings of the properties and capabilities of EMO algorithms, and accumulating much evidence of their worth in practical scenarios. An urgent…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2009-08-24 David Corne , Joshua Knowles

Many-objective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs), especially the decomposition-based MOEAs, have attracted wide attention in recent years. Recent studies show that a well designed combination of the decomposition method and the domination…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Yingyu Zhang , Yuanzhen Li , Quan-Ke Panb , P. N. Suganthan

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

Dynamic multi-objective optimization problems (DMOPs) remain a challenge to be settled, because of conflicting objective functions change over time. In recent years, transfer learning has been proven to be a kind of effective approach in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Zhenzhong Wang , Min Jiang , Xing Gao , Liang Feng , Weizhen Hu , Kay Chen Tan

Multi-objective optimization is a common problem in practical applications, and multi-objective evolutionary algorithm (MOEA) is considered as one of the effective methods to solve these problems. However, their randomness sometimes…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Wanyi Liu , Long Chen , Zhenzhou Tang

Real-world optimization problems often involve stochastic and dynamic components. Evolutionary algorithms are particularly effective in these scenarios, as they can easily adapt to uncertain and changing environments but often uncertainty…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Ishara Hewa Pathiranage , Frank Neumann , Denis Antipov , Aneta Neumann

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

In this paper, we design a set of multi-objective constrained optimization problems (MCOPs) and propose a new repair operator to address them. The proposed repair operator is used to fix the solutions that violate the box constraints. More…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-04-02 Zhun Fan , Wenji Li , Xinye Cai , Huibiao Lin , Shuxiang Xie , Erik Goodman

Multi-objective optimization problems (MOPs) are ubiquitous in real-world applications, presenting a complex challenge of balancing multiple conflicting objectives. Traditional evolutionary algorithms (EAs), though effective, often rely on…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Yuxiao Huang , Shenghao Wu , Wenjie Zhang , Jibin Wu , Liang Feng , Kay Chen Tan

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

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

Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms (MOEAs) have been proved efficient to deal with Multi-objective Optimization Problems (MOPs). Until now tens of MOEAs have been proposed. The unified mode would provide a more systematic approach to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2011-02-01 Bojin Zheng , Yuanxiang Li

The development of efficient and effective evolutionary multi-objective optimization (EMO) algorithms has been an active research topic in the evolutionary computation community. Over the years, many EMO algorithms have been proposed. The…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Lie Meng Pang , Hisao Ishibuchi , Ke Shang

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