This paper proposes a hybrid particle swarm approach called Simple Multi-Objective Particle Swarm Optimizer (SMOPSO) which incorporates Pareto dominance, an elitist policy, and two techniques to maintain diversity: a mutation operator and a grid which is used as a geographical location over objective function space. In order to validate our approach we use three well-known test functions propos...

Several recent proposed techniques for multiobjective optimisation use the dominance relation to establish preference among solutions. In this paper, the Pareto archived evolutionary strategy and a population-based annealing algorithm are applied to test instances of a highly constrained combinatorial optimisation problem: academic space allocation. It is shown that the performance of both algo...

Group technology is a manufacturing philosophy that attempts to provide some of the operational advantages of a line layout while maintaining some of the strategic advantages of the job shop layout. In designing a productive process that will adopt this manufacturing strategy, one of the primary problems encountered is the formation of component families and production cells. The production cel...

The Pareto Archived Evolution Strategy 1 (PAES) KC99c, KC99b, KC99a], a local search algorithm for multiobjective optimization tasks, is compared with a modern, proven population-based EA, the Strength Pareto Evolutionary Algorithm (SPEA) of Zitzler and Thiele ZT98, ZDT99, ZT99]. Comparison is carried out with respect to six test functions designed by Deb, each of which is designed to capture a...

This study aims to introduce a generic solution in the context of multicriteria decision making (MCDM) platform (1) facilitate optimization hybrid (de)centralized urban drainage infrastructures with many decisions and often conflicting objectives (reliability, resilience, sustainability, construction costs); (2) investigate trade-offs between performance indicators system configuration; (3) avo...

The microclimate affects the quality and efficiency of outdoor spaces campuses, especially in cold regions China. In this paper, we propose a multiobjective optimization method to improve thermal comfort environment university campuses severe regions. We used morphology data from 41 universities region China create layout prototype campus cluster. Multiobjective was used, effects sunlight, sola...

Facility layout planning (FLP) involves a set of design problems related to the arrangement elements that shape industrial production systems in physical space. The fact they are considered one most important decisions as part business operation strategies, and their proven repercussion on systems’ costs, efficiency productivity, mean this theme has been widely addressed science. In context, pr...