WSEAS Transactions on Computers
Print ISSN: 1109-2750, E-ISSN: 2224-2872
Volume 18, 2019
Multicriteria Generation of Alternatives for Engineering Optimization Problems Using Population-Based Metaheuristics: A Computational Test
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Abstract: Engineering optimization problems can be dominated by inconsistent performance requirements and incompatible specifications that can be difficult to detect when supporting mathematical programming models are formulated. Thus, it often proves advantageous to construct a set of options that provide dissimilar approaches to such problems. These alternatives should satisfy the required performance criteria, but be maximally different from each other in their decision spaces. The method for constructing maximally different sets of solutions is referred to as modelling-to-generate-alternatives (MGA). This paper considers a multicriteria method that can generate sets of maximally different alternatives using any population-based solution algorithm. This MGA approach is both computationally efficient and simultaneously produces the prescribed number of maximally different solution alternatives in a single computational run of the procedure. The computational efficacy of this multicriteria MGA approach is demonstrated on two commonly-tested engineering optimization problems using the population-based Firefly Algorithm metaheuristic
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Keywords: Multicriteria Objectives, Modelling-to-generate-alternatives, Population-based algorithms, Firefly Algorithm
Pages: 239-247
WSEAS Transactions on Computers, ISSN / E-ISSN: 1109-2750 / 2224-2872, Volume 18, 2019, Art. #31