The practical application of a multi-objective optimization strategy based on evolutionary algorithms was proposed to optimize the plastics thermoforming process. For that purpose, in this work, differently from other works literature, shaping step considered individually with aim optimizing thickness distribution final part originated sheets characterized by different profiles, such as constan...

in financial matters, portfolio can be interpreted as a combination or a series of investments hold by an institution or a person. portfolio optimization is one of the most important concerns of investors for maximizing the portfolio in financial markets. the formation of portfolio is a vital and critical decision for the companies.  in fact, the selection of portfolio is to specify the capital...

Amongst the activities of the European Commission IST research project MIND [1] is extensive consideration of the multi-homing issues in IP access networks. Analysis of the various multi-homing scenarios reveals diverse aspects of multi-homing relevant to both the operations of the access network as well as the hosts connected to it. The originality of the work presented in this paper is arisin...

In many real-world optimization problems sparse solution vectors are often preferred. Unfortunately, evolutionary algorithms can have problems to eliminate certain components completely especially in multi-modal or neutral search spaces. A simple extension of the realvalued representation enables evolutionary algorithms to solve these types of optimization problems more efficiently. In case of ...