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In this paper we address a unified mathematical optimization framework to compute a wide range of measures used in most operations research and data science contexts. The goal is to embed such metrics within general optimization models…

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When designing a motion planner for autonomous robots there are usually multiple objectives to be considered. However, a cost function that yields the desired trade-off between objectives is not easily obtainable. A common technique across…

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Various local search approaches have recently been applied to machine scheduling problems under multiple objectives. Their foremost consideration is the identification of the set of Pareto optimal alternatives. An important aspect of…

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Today's global supply chains face growing challenges due to rapidly changing market conditions, increased network complexity and inter-dependency, and dynamic uncertainties in supply, demand, and other factors. To combat these challenges,…

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This paper introduces a new optimization model that integrates the multi-port stowage planning problem with the container relocation problem. This problem is formulated as a binary mathematical programming model that must find the…

Inventory management is a fundamental challenge in supply chain management. The challenge is compounded when the associated products have unpredictable demands. This study proposes an innovative optimization approach combining…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-20 Sarit Maitra

Multi-objective optimization aims at finding trade-off solutions to conflicting objectives. These constitute the Pareto optimal set. In the context of expensive-to-evaluate functions, it is impossible and often non-informative to look for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-02-20 David Gaudrie , Rodolphe Le Riche , Victor Picheny , Benoit Enaux , Vincent Herbert

Many real-world decision-making problems involve optimizing multiple objectives simultaneously, rendering the selection of the most preferred solution a non-trivial problem: All Pareto optimal solutions are viable candidates, and it is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Niclas Boehmer , Maximilian T. Wittmann

Balancing safety, efficiency, and operational costs in highway driving poses a challenging decision-making problem for heavy-duty vehicles. A central difficulty is that conventional scalar reward formulations, obtained by aggregating these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Deepthi Pathare , Leo Laine , Morteza Haghir Chehreghani

Multi-Objective Optimization (MOO) techniques have become increasingly popular in recent years due to their potential for solving real-world problems in various fields, such as logistics, finance, environmental management, and engineering.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Noor A. Rashed , Yossra H. Ali , Tarik A. Rashid , A. Salih

Expensive multi-objective optimization problems can be found in many real-world applications, where their objective function evaluations involve expensive computations or physical experiments. It is desirable to obtain an approximate Pareto…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Xi Lin , Zhiyuan Yang , Xiaoyuan Zhang , Qingfu Zhang

Multiobjective optimization plays an increasingly important role in modern applications, where several criteria are often of equal importance. The task in multiobjective optimization and multiobjective optimal control is therefore to…

This paper provides a novel framework for solving multiobjective discrete optimization problems with an arbitrary number of objectives. Our framework formulates these problems as network models, in that enumerating the Pareto frontier…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-06 David Bergman , Merve Bodur , Carlos Cardonha , Andre A. Cire

Inventory management, vehicle routing, and delivery scheduling decisions are simultaneously considered in the context of the inventory routing problem. This paper focuses on the continuous-time version of this problem where, unlike its more…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-25 Akang Wang , Xiandong Li , Jeffrey E. Arbogast , Zachary Wilson , Chrysanthos E. Gounaris

While consolidation strategies form the backbone of many supply chain optimisation problems, exploitation of multi-tier material relationships through consolidation remains an understudied area, despite being a prominent feature of…

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Guaranteeing stringent data freshness for low-altitude unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in shared spectrum forces a critical trade-off between two operational costs: the UAV's own energy consumption and the occupation of terrestrial channel…

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Multi-objective optimization is central to many engineering and machine learning applications, where multiple objectives must be optimized in balance. While multi-gradient based optimization methods combine these objectives in each step,…

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Optimization of three-dimensional road alignments is a nonlinear non-convex optimization problem. The development of models that fully optimize a three-dimensional road alignment problem is challenging due to numerous factors involved and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-02-04 D. Hirpa , W. Hare , Y. Lucet , Y. Pushak , S. Tesfamariam

We consider the following two deterministic inventory optimization problems over a finite planning horizon $T$ with non-stationary demands. (a) Submodular Joint Replenishment Problem: This involves multiple item types and a single retailer…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-04-27 Viswanath Nagarajan , Cong Shi

When solving large-scale multiobjective optimization problems, solvers can get stuck with the memory or time limit. In such cases, one is left with no information how far is the best feasible solution, found before the optimization process…

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