This paper presents an efficient optimization procedure to find the optimal shapes of double curvature  arch  dams  considering  fluid–structure  interaction  subject  to  earthquake  loading. The optimization is carried out using a combination of the magnetic charged system search, big bang-big crunch algorithm and artificial neural network methods. Performing the finite element  analysis  dur...

This paper aims to prove the efficiency of an adapted computationally intelligence-based behavior of cats called the cat swarm optimization algorithm, that solves the open shop scheduling problem, classified as NP-hard which its importance appears in several industrial and manufacturing applications. The cat swarm optimization algorithm was applied to solve some benchmark instances from the lit...

The coupling of performance functions due to common design variables and uncertainties in an engineering design process will result in difficulties in optimization design problems, such as poor collaboration among design objectives and poor resolution of design conflicts. To handle these problems, a fuzzy interactive multi-objective optimization model is developed based on Pareto solutions, whe...

This paper presents results of extensive computational experiments in which evolutionary multiobjective algorithms were used to find Pareto-optimal solutions to a complex structural design problem. In particular, Strength-Pareto Evolutionary Algorithm 2 (SPEA2) was combined with a mathematical programming method to find optimal designs of steel structural systems in tall buildings with respect ...

Given several different new product development projects and limited resources, this paper is concerned with the optimal allocation of resources among the projects. This is clearly a multi-objective optimization problem (MOOP), because each new product development project has both a profit expectation and a loss expectation, and such expectations vary according to allocated resources. In such a...

A multiobjective optimization approach to deal with a pollutant emission reduction problem in the manufacturing industry, through implementation of the best available technical options, is presented in this paper. More specifically, attention is focused on the industrial painting of wood and the problem under investigation is formulated as a bicriteria combinatorial optimization problem. A nich...

In this paper, we develop a novel algorithm which finds a subset of Pareto front of a Multi-Objective Distributed Constraint Optimization Problem. This algorithm utilizes the Lp-norm method, pseudo-tree, and Dynamic Programming technique. Furthermore, we show that this Lp-norm based algorithm can only guarantee to find a Pareto optimal solution, when we employ L1-norm (Manhattan norm).

Uncertain random variables are used to describe the phenomenon of simultaneous appearance of both uncertainty and randomness in a complex system. For modeling multi-objective decision-making problems with uncertain random parameters, a class of uncertain random optimization is suggested for decision systems in this paper, called the uncertain random multi-objective programming. For solving the ...

Many practical optimization problems usually have several conflicting objectives. In those multi-objective optimization, no solution optimizing all objective functions simultaneously exists in general. Instead, Pareto optimal solutions, which are “efficient” in terms of all objective functions, are introduced. In general we have many Pareto optimal solutions. Therefore, we need to decide a fina...