Abstract. Multi-objective evolutionary algorithms which use non-dominated sorting and sharing have been mainly criticized for their (i) computational complexity (where is the number of objectives and is the population size), (ii) non-elitism approach, and (iii) the need for specifying a sharing parameter. In this paper, we suggest a non-dominated sorting based multi-objective evolutionary algor...

In this paper we deal with mathematical programming problems with fuzzy constraints. Fuzzy solutions are obtained by means of a parametric approach in conjuntion with evolutionary techniques. Some important characteristics of the evolutionary algorithm are a natural representation of solutions , a problem-independent technique for constraint satisfaction, tournament selection, complete generati...

In this paper, a novel approach based on handling constraints as objectives together with a modified Parks & Miller elitist technique, to solve constrained multiobjective optimization problems, is analyzed with Niched Pareto Genetic Algorithm. The performance of this approach is compared with the classical procedure of handling constraints that is the exterior penalty function method. Results a...

Ernest Sosa has lately posed a new skeptical problem and a solution. Setting out a novel account of dreaming, Sosa worries that ‘‘the possibility that we dream now threatens not only our supposed perceptual knowledge but even our supposed introspective knowledge, our supposed takings of the given’’ (2007, p. 9). In what follows, we outline Sosa’s dream argument and evaluate his solution. Accord...

We derive the moduli space for the global symmetry in N = 1 supersymmetric theories. We show, at the generic points, that it coincides with the space of quasi-Nambu-Goldstone (QNG) bosons, which appear besides the ordinary Nambu-Goldstone (NG) bosons when the global symmetry G breaks down spontaneously to its subgroup H with preserving N = 1 supersymmetry. At the singular points, most of the NG...

To better understand the communication of anti-elitism in contemporary politics, this study conceptually differentiates between specific geared toward specific, materially powerful elites (‘Angela Merkel’) and general referencing broader discursive constructs (‘the elite’). The analyses online communications radical right parties 2019 European Parliament elections from six countries (Germany, F...

Due to the combinatorial explosions in solution space for scheduling problems, the balance between genetic search and local search is an important issue when designing a memetic algorithm [23] for scheduling problems. The main motivation of this research is to resolve the combinatorial explosion problem by reducing the possible neighborhood combinations using guided operations to remove these i...