Author: Jared L. Cohon
Publisher: Dover Publications
Keywords: planning, programming, multiobjective
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2004-01-13
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0486432637
ISBN-13: 9780486432632

This text takes a broad view of multiobjective programming, emphasizing the methods most useful for continuous problems. It reviews multiobjective programming methods in the context of public decision-making problems. Topics include a review of linear programming, the formulation of the general multiobjective programming problem, much more. 1978 edition.

Author: Tapan P. Bagchi
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: algorithms, genetic, scheduling, multiobjective
Number of Pages: 376
Published: 1999-08-31
List price: $174.00
ISBN-10: 0792385616
ISBN-13: 9780792385615

Multiobjective Scheduling by Genetic Algorithms describes methods for developing multiobjective solutions to common production scheduling equations modeling in the literature as flowshops, job shops and open shops. The methodology is metaheuristic, one inspired by how nature has evolved a multitude of coexisting species of living beings on earth. Multiobjective flowshops, job shops and open shops are each highly relevant models in manufacturing, classroom scheduling or automotive assembly, yet for want of sound methods they have remained almost untouched to date. This text shows how methods su

Authors:K. C. Tan, E. F. Khor, T. H. Lee,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: information, knowledge, processing, advanced, applications, evolutionary, algorithms, multiobjective
Number of Pages: 295
Published: 2005-05-04
List price: $109.00
ISBN-10: 1852338369
ISBN-13: 9781852338367

Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization covers the authorsAe recent research in the area of multiobjective evolutionary algorithms as well as its practical applications. The book is organized into two broad categories of chapters. The first category, introduces the concept, algorithm, advanced feature and software of evolutionary multiobjective optimization. The second category, illustrates the utility of evolutionary multiobjective optimization in practical applications, such as control systems, engineering designs, data mining and image processing. Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization c

Authors:Yann Collette, Patrick Siarry,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: decision, engineering, studies, case, optimization, principles, multiobjective
Number of Pages: 293
Published: 2003-08-08
List price: $119.00
ISBN-10: 3540401822
ISBN-13: 9783540401827

From whatever domain they come, engineers are faced daily with optimization problems that requires conflicting objectives to be met. This monograph systematically presents several multiobjective optimization methods accompanied by many analytical examples. Each method or definition is clarified, when possible, by an illustration. Multiobjective Optimization treats not only engineering problems, e.g in mechanics, but also problems arising in operations research and management. It explains how to choose the most suitable method to solve a given problem and uses three primary application examples

Author: Kaisa Miettinen
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: research, amp, management, science, operations, series, multiobjective, optimization, international, nonlinear
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1998-09-30
List price: $249.00
ISBN-10: 0792382781
ISBN-13: 9780792382782

Problems with multiple objectives and criteria are generally known as multiple criteria optimization or multiple criteria decision-making (MCDM) problems. So far, these types of problems have typically been modelled and solved by means of linear programming. However, many real-life phenomena are of a nonlinear nature, which is why we need tools for nonlinear programming capable of handling several conflicting or incommensurable objectives. In this case, methods of traditional single objective optimization and linear programming are not enough; we need new ways of thinking, new concept

Author: Masatoshi Sakawa
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: computer, science, interfaces, series, research, operations, algorithms, fuzzy, multiobjective, optimization, genetic
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2002-01-15
List price: $286.00
ISBN-10: 0792374525
ISBN-13: 9780792374527

Since the introduction of genetic algorithms in the 1970s, an enormous number of articles together with several significant monographs and books have been published on this methodology. As a result, genetic algorithms have made a major contribution to optimization, adaptation, and learning in a wide variety of unexpected fields. Over the years, many excellent books in genetic algorithm optimization have been published; however, they focus mainly on single-objective discrete or other hard optimization problems under certainty. There appears to be no book that is designed to present gen

Author: Gabriele Eichfelder
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: optimization, vector, multiobjective, methods, scalarization, adaptive
Number of Pages: 242
Published: 2008-06-04
List price: $129.00
ISBN-10: 3540791574
ISBN-13: 9783540791577

This book presents adaptive solution methods for multiobjective optimization problems based on parameter dependent scalarization approaches. With the help of sensitivity results an adaptive parameter control is developed such that high-quality approximations of the efficient set are generated. These examinations are based on a special scalarization approach, but the application of these results to many other well-known scalarization methods is also presented. Thereby very general multiobjective optimization problems are considered with an arbitrary partial ordering defined by a closed pointed