A two-stage preference driven multi-objective evolutionary algorithm for workflow scheduling in the Cloud

H **e, D Ding, L Zhao, K Kang, Q Liu - Expert Systems with Applications, 2024 - Elsevier
The workflow scheduling problem considered difficult in the Cloud becomes even more
challenging when multiple scheduling criteria are used for optimization. It is much harder to …

Sustainable supplier selection and order allocation for multinational enterprises considering supply disruption in COVID-19 era

Y Shao, D Barnes, C Wu - Australian Journal of …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
The unprecedented outbreak of COVID-19 has left many multinational enterprises facing
extremely severe supply disruptions. Besides considering triple-bottom-line requirements …

Vertical distance-based clonal selection mechanism for the multiobjective immune algorithm

L Li, Q Lin, K Li, Z Ming - Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, 2021 - Elsevier
Traditional multiobjective immune algorithms (MOIAs) widely use the domination
relationship and crowding distance metric to run the cloning operator, which places more …

Kriging-assisted indicator-based evolutionary algorithm for expensive multi-objective optimization

F Li, Y Yang, Z Shang, S Li, H Ouyang - Applied Soft Computing, 2023 - Elsevier
Selection mechanisms based on performance indicators are popular for solving multi-
objective optimization problems (MOPs), which can provide a comprehensive evaluation of …

A practical regularity model based evolutionary algorithm for multiobjective optimization

W Zhang, S Wang, A Zhou, H Zhang - Applied Soft Computing, 2022 - Elsevier
It is well known that domain knowledge helps design efficient problem solvers. The
regularity model based multiobjective estimation of distribution algorithm (RM-MEDA) is …

Balancing performance between the decision space and the objective space in multimodal multiobjective optimization

Q Yang, Z Wang, J Luo, Q He - Memetic computing, 2021 - Springer
Many multimodal multiobjective optimization algorithms aim to find as many Pareto optimal
solutions as possible while the performance in the objective space is despised. More …

A knee point driven Kriging-assisted multi-objective robust fuzzy clustering algorithm for image segmentation

F Zhao, Z **ao, H Liu, Z Tang, J Fan - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2023 - Elsevier
To enhance the segmentation performance and optimization efficiency of multi-objective
evolutionary clustering algorithms for noisy images, this study presents a knee point driven …

Integration of preferences in multimodal multi-objective optimization

Z Li, H Rong, J Chen, Z Zhao, Y Huang - Expert Systems with Applications, 2024 - Elsevier
Various existing multimodal multi-objective evolutionary algorithms (MMEAs) efficiently
search for an approximation to the Pareto optimal front (PF), which consists of multiple …

Preference-based multi-objective evolutionary algorithm with linear combination scalarizing function and reference point adjustment

P Zhao, L Wang, Z Fang, X Pan, Q Qiu - Applied Soft Computing, 2024 - Elsevier
In practice, the decision-maker (DM) may be only interested in a particular part of Pareto
optimal front (PF). For this reason, many preference-based multi-objective evolutionary …

A novel dynamic reference point model for preference-based evolutionary multiobjective optimization

X Lin, W Luo, N Gu, Q Zhang - Complex & Intelligent Systems, 2023 - Springer
In the field of preference-based evolutionary multiobjective optimization, optimization
algorithms are required to search for the Pareto optimal solutions preferred by the decision …