We propose a differential evolution (DE) algorithm for the calculation of the interval and fuzzy variance. In particular, we see that the DE methods can be efficient for the fuzzy variance of a relatively high number of fuzzy data; computational results with up to 100 data show that the number of function evaluations to obtain the estimated global solutions grows less then quadratically with th...

Differential evolution (DE) has become a popular and promising technique in the recent decade. There are many successful applications implemented DE in scientific and engineering fields. However, we rarely found it applying to the field of highly constrained aggregate production planning (APP) problems. Besides, in the course of solving the APP problem, we discover that the most often used DE s...

Diverse sustainable supplier selection (SSS) methodologies have been suggested by the practitioners in earlier, to find a solution to the SSS problem. A SSS problem fundamentally is a multi-criteria practice. It is a judgment of tactical significance to enterprises. The nature of this decision usually is difficult and unstructured. Optimization practices might be useful tools for these types of...

Abstract In this paper we present experimental results to show deep view on how selfadaptive mechanism works in differential evolution algorithm. The results of the self-adaptive differential evolution algorithm were evaluated on the set of 24 benchmark functions provided for the CEC2006 special session on constrained real parameter optimization. In this paper we especially focus on how the con...