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Purpose: Current inverse planning methods for IMRT are limited because they are not designed to explore the trade-offs between the competing objectives between the tumor and normal tissues. Our goal was to develop an efficient…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Clay Holdsworth , Minsun Kim , Jay Liao , Mark H Phillips

We propose the cone epsilon-dominance approach to improve convergence and diversity in multiobjective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs). A cone-eps-MOEA is presented and compared with MOEAs based on the standard Pareto relation (NSGA-II,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Lucas S. Batista , Felipe Campelo , Frederico G. Guimarães , Jaime A. Ramírez

Multi-objective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs) are essential for solving complex optimization problems, such as the diet problem, where balancing conflicting objectives, like cost and nutritional content, is crucial. However, most MOEAs…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Gustavo V. Nascimento , Ivan R. Meneghini , Valéria Santos , Eduardo Luz , Gladston Moreira

Heuristic optimisation algorithms explore the search space by sampling solutions, evaluating their fitness, and biasing the search in the direction of promising solutions. However, in many cases, this fitness function involves executing…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Pablo S. Naharro , Pablo Toharia , Antonio LaTorre , José-María Peña

Many real-world systems are modelled using complex ordinary differential equations (ODEs). However, the dimensionality of these systems can make them challenging to analyze. Dimensionality reduction techniques like Proper Orthogonal…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Abhishek Ajayakumar , Soumyendu Raha

Existing work on data-driven optimization focuses on problems in static environments, but little attention has been paid to problems in dynamic environments. This paper proposes a data-driven optimization algorithm to deal with the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Cuie Yang , Jinliang Ding , Yaochu Jin , Tianyou Chai

Optimization algorithms are very different from human optimizers. A human being would gain more experiences through problem-solving, which helps her/him in solving a new unseen problem. Yet an optimization algorithm never gains any…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Xunzhao Yu , Yan Wang , Ling Zhu , Dimitar Filev , Xin Yao

Stochastic, iterative search methods such as Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) are proven to be efficient optimizers. However, they require evaluation of the candidate solutions which may be prohibitively expensive in many real world…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-03-12 Maumita Bhattacharya

The surrogate-assisted optimization algorithm is a promising approach for solving expensive multi-objective optimization problems. However, most existing surrogate-assisted multi-objective optimization algorithms have three main drawbacks:…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Xi Lin , Hui-Ling Zhen , Zhenhua Li , Qingfu Zhang , Sam Kwong

Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) have been widely and successfully applied to solve multi-objective optimization problems, due to their nature of population-based search. Population update, a key component in multi-objective EAs (MOEAs), is…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Chao Bian , Yawen Zhou , Miqing Li , Chao Qian

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

Surrogate-assisted evolutionary algorithms (SAEAs) are a key tool for addressing costly optimization tasks, with their efficiency being heavily dependent on the selection of surrogate models and infill sampling criteria. However, designing…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Lindong Xie , Genghui Li , Zhenkun Wang , Edward Chung , Maoguo Gong

In computer-aided engineering design, the goal of a designer is to find an optimal design on a given requirement using the numerical simulator in loop with an optimization method. In this design optimization process, a good design…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Harsh Vardhan , Peter Volgyesi , Janos Sztipanovits

Complex physical simulations often require trade-offs between model fidelity and computational feasibility. We introduce Adaptive Online Emulation (AOE), which dynamically learns neural network surrogates during simulation execution to…

Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) have become the most popular tool for solving widely-existed multi-objective optimization problems. In Multi-Objective EAs (MOEAs), there is increasing interest in using an archive to store non-dominated…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Shengjie Ren , Zimin Liang , Miqing Li , Chao Qian

Adjoint-based shape optimization of ship hulls is a powerful tool for addressing high-dimensional design problems in naval architecture, particularly in minimizing the ship resistance. However, its application to vessels that employ complex…

We present a multi-objective evolutionary optimization algorithm that uses Gaussian process (GP) regression-based models to select trial solutions in a multi-generation iterative procedure. In each generation, a surrogate model is…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Xiaobiao Huang , Minghao Song , Zhe Zhang

Methods for generating sequences of surrogates approximating fine scale models of two-phase random heterogeneous media are presented that are designed to adaptively control the modeling error in key quantities of interest (QoIs). For…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-07 Laura Scarabosio , Barbara Wohlmuth , J. Tinsley Oden , Danial Faghihi

Real world constrained multiobjective optimization problems (CMOPs) are prevalent and often come with stringent time-sensitive requirements. However, most contemporary constrained multiobjective evolutionary algorithms (CMOEAs) suffer from…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Weixiong Huang , Rui Wang , Wenhua Li , Sheng Qi , Tianyu Luo , Delong Chen , Tao Zhang , Ling Wang

Decomposition-based multiobjective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs) with clustering-based reference vector adaptation show good optimization performance for many-objective optimization problems (MaOPs). Especially, algorithms that employ a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Takato Kinoshita , Naoki Masuyama , Yiping Liu , Yusuke Nojima , Hisao Ishibuchi