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Software quality estimation is a challenging and time-consuming activity, and models are crucial to face the complexity of such activity on modern software applications. In this context, software refactoring is a crucial activity within…

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Creating diverse sets of high quality solutions has become an important problem in recent years. Previous works on diverse solutions problems consider solutions' objective quality and diversity where one is regarded as the optimization goal…

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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…

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Floating Zone (FZ) silicon crystal growth is essential for high-power electronics and advanced detection systems. The increasing pressure to scale up the process is challenging due to competing objectives. This study presents a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-25 Lucas Vieira , Milena Petkovic , Robert Menzel , Natasha Dropka

Designing safe and sustainable chemicals is critical to combat chemical pollution in our environment. Machine learning (ML) methods have been developed to aid with de novo molecule design. However, data on the environmental impacts of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Coelina Robinson , Franziska Weissbach , Kjell Jorner , Mennatallah El-Assady , Christina Humer

In this paper we consider multi-objective optimization problems over a box. The problem is very relevant and several computational approaches have been proposed in the literature. They broadly fall into two main classes: evolutionary…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-08 Matteo Lapucci , Pierluigi Mansueto , Fabio Schoen

Niching is an important and widely used technique in evolutionary multi-objective optimization. Its applications mainly focus on maintaining diversity and avoiding early convergence to local optimum. Recently, a special class of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Yiming Peng , Hisao Ishibuchi

Process discovery approaches analyze the business data to automatically uncover structured information, known as a process model. The quality of a process model is measured using quality dimensions -- completeness (replay fitness),…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Sonia Deshmukh , Shikha Gupta , Naveen Kumar

Conjugated organic molecules represent an important area of materials chemistry for both fundamental scientific exploration and technological applications. Using a genetic algorithm to computationally screen up to ~25-50 million molecules…

Applied Physics · Physics 2017-07-14 Ilana Y. Kanal , Geoffrey R. Hutchison

Designing optimal soft modular robots is difficult, due to non-trivial interactions between morphology and controller. Evolutionary algorithms (EAs), combined with physical simulators, represent a valid tool to overcome this issue. In this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Enrico Zardini , Davide Zappetti , Davide Zambrano , Giovanni Iacca , Dario Floreano

In solving multi-modal, multi-objective optimization problems (MMOPs), the objective is not only to find a good representation of the Pareto-optimal front (PF) in the objective space but also to find all equivalent Pareto-optimal subsets…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Tapabrata Ray , Mohammad Mohiuddin Mamun , Hemant Kumar Singh

The rational design of photonic nanostructures consists in anticipating their optical response from simple models or as variations of reference systems. This strategy is limited when different objectives are simultaneously targeted.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-25 Peter R. Wiecha , Arnaud Arbouet , Christian Girard , Aurélie Lecestre , Guilhem Larrieu , Vincent Paillard

Goal-oriented de novo molecule design, namely generating molecules with specific property or substructure constraints, is a crucial yet challenging task in drug discovery. Existing methods, such as Bayesian optimization and reinforcement…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Chuanliu Fan , Ziqiang Cao , Zicheng Ma , Nan Yu , Yimin Peng , Jun Zhang , Yiqin Gao , Guohong Fu

The nonlinear optical response of materials to exciting light is enhanced by resonances between the incident laser frequencies and the energy levels of the excited material. Traditionally, in molecular nonlinear spectroscopy one tunes the…

Optics · Physics 2019-01-30 Yael Blechman , Euclides Almeida , Basudeb Sain , Yehiam Prior

Optical chemical structure recognition (OCSR) translates molecular images into machine-readable representations like SMILES strings or molecular graphs, but remains challenging in real-world documents due to inexhaustible variations in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Zhuoqi Lyu , Qing Ke

Genetic programming (GP) is one of the best approaches today to discover symbolic regression models. To find models that trade off accuracy and complexity, the non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm II (NSGA-II) is widely used.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Dazhuang Liu , Marco Virgolin , Tanja Alderliesten , Peter A. N. Bosman

Ethylene is a crucial chemical in manufacturing numerous consumer products. In recent years, the oxidative dehydrogenation of ethane (ODHE) technique has garnered significant interest as a means for ethylene production due to its high…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-07-11 Seyed Reza Nabavi , Zhiyuan Wang , María Laura Rodríguez

Both feature selection and hyperparameter tuning are key tasks in machine learning. Hyperparameter tuning is often useful to increase model performance, while feature selection is undertaken to attain sparse models. Sparsity may yield…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-02-14 Martin Binder , Julia Moosbauer , Janek Thomas , Bernd Bischl

Molecular generation, an essential method for identifying new drug structures, has been supported by advancements in machine learning and computational technology. However, challenges remain in multi-objective generation, model…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-04-11 Ningfeng Liu , Jie Yu , Siyu Xiu , Xinfang Zhao , Siyu Lin , Bo Qiang , Ruqiu Zheng , Hongwei Jin , Liangren Zhang , Zhenming Liu

In recommender systems, it is well-established that both accuracy and diversity are crucial for generating high-quality recommendation lists. However, achieving a balance between these two typically conflicting objectives remains a…

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