Special Session on “Multi-Objective Optimization”

Special Session on Multi-Objective Optimization

We welcome  contributions on theory, methodology and applications of  multi-objective optimization and multi-criteria decision aiding.

Relevant topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Comparative studies of various many-objective optimization techniques
  • Designing and constructing many-objective benchmark test problems
  • Designing quality/performance metrics for many-objective solutions/algorithms
  • Development of meta-heuristic algorithms for many-objective optimization problems
  • Evolutionary many-objective optimization methods in search-based software engineering
  • Evolutionary many-objective optimization methods applied to real-world problems
  • Exact methods from mathematical programming for many-objective optimization problems
  • Many-objective optimization in bi-level optimization problems
  • Many-objective optimization in combinatorial/discrete optimization problems
  • Many-objective optimization in computational expensive optimization problems
  • Many-objective optimization in constrained optimization problems
  • Many-objective optimization in dynamic environments
  • Many-objective optimization in large-scale optimization problems
  • Objective reduction techniques
  • Preference articulation in many-objective optimization
  • Preference-based search in many-objective optimization
  • Study of parameter sensitivity in many-objective optimization
  • Theoretical analysis and developments in many-objective optimization
  • Visualization for decision-making in many-objective optimization
  • Visualization for many-objective solution sets
  • Visualization for the search process of meta-heuristic algorithms
  • Multi-objective Optimization: new algorithms and concrete applications
  • Industrial problems, transportation and logistics problems
  • contributions to theoretical aspects of Multi-Objective Optimization (MOO) and Multi-Criteria Decision Aiding (MCDA)
  • descriptions of actual application cases
  • software contributions to MOO or MCDA
  • inter-disciplinary research, presenting the contributions of MOO and/or MCDA to other scientific disciplines, or integrating other disciplines into MOO or/and MCDA
  • decision aiding and multi-objective optimization for sustainability

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