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EMO
2001
Springer
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Fuzzy Evolutionary Hybrid Metaheuristic for Network Topology Design
Abstract. Topology design of enterprise networks is a hard combinatorial optimization problem. It has numerous constraints, several objectives, and a very noisy solution space. Bes...
Habib Youssef, Sadiq M. Sait, Salman A. Khan
EMO
2001
Springer
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Multi-objective Optimisation of Cancer Chemotherapy Using Evolutionary Algorithms
The main objectives of cancer treatment in general, and of cancer chemotherapy in particular, are to eradicate the tumour and to prolong the patient survival time. Traditionally, t...
Andrei Petrovski, John A. W. McCall
EMO
2001
Springer
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Inferential Performance Assessment of Stochastic Optimisers and the Attainment Function
Abstract The performance of stochastic optimisers can be assessed experimentally on given problems by performing multiple optimisation runs, and analysing the results. Since an opt...
Viviane Grunert da Fonseca, Carlos M. Fonseca, And...
EMO
2001
Springer
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Specification of Genetic Search Directions in Cellular Multi-objective Genetic Algorithms
When we try to implement a multi-objective genetic algorithm (MOGA) with variable weights for finding a set of Pareto optimal solutions, one difficulty lies in determining appropri...
Tadahiko Murata, Hisao Ishibuchi, Mitsuo Gen
EMO
2001
Springer
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Comparison of Evolutionary and Deterministic Multiobjective Algorithms for Dose Optimization in Brachytherapy
We compare two multiobjective evolutionary algorithms, with deterministic gradient based optimization methods for the dose optimization problem in high-dose rate (HDR) brachythera...
Natasa Milickovic, Michael Lahanas, Dimos Baltas, ...
EMO
2001
Springer
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On the Effects of Archiving, Elitism, and Density Based Selection in Evolutionary Multi-objective Optimization
This paper studies the influence of what are recognized as key issues in evolutionary multi-objective optimization: archiving (to keep track of the current non-dominated solutions...
Marco Laumanns, Eckart Zitzler, Lothar Thiele
EMO
2001
Springer
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Multi-objective Design Space Exploration of Road Trains with Evolutionary Algorithms
This paper examines the road train concept as a new alternative in long-distance freight traffic. The design of such a system is a difficult task since many different and conflicti...
Nando Laumanns, Marco Laumanns, Dirk Neunzig
EMO
2001
Springer
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Application of Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithms for Dose Optimization Problems in Brachytherapy
In High Dose Rate (HDR) brachytherapy the conventional dose optimization algorithms consider the multiple objectives in form of an aggregate function which combines individual obj...
Michael Lahanas, Natasa Milickovic, Dimos Baltas, ...
EMO
2001
Springer
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Reducing Local Optima in Single-Objective Problems by Multi-objectivization
One common characterization of how simple hill-climbing optimization methods can fail is that they become trapped in local optima - a state where no small modi cation of the curren...
Joshua D. Knowles, Richard A. Watson, David Corne