Information Extraction from Solution Set of Simulation-based Multi-objective Optimisation using Data Mining

In this work, we investigate ways of extracting information from simulations, in particular from simulation-based multi-objective optimisation, in order to acquire information that can support human decision makers that aim for optimising manufacturing processes. Applying data mining for analyzing data generated using simulation is a fairly unexplored area. With the observation that the obtained solutions from a simulation-based multi-objective optimisation are all optimal (or close to the optimal Pareto front) so that they are bound to follow and exhibit certain relationships among variables vis-à-vis objectives, it is argued that using data mining to discover these relationships could be a promising procedure. The aim of this paper is to provide the empirical results from two simulation case studies to support such a hypothesis.