In today’s computer architectures the design spaces are huge, thus making it very difficult to find optimal configurations. One way to cope with this problem is to use Automatic Design Space Exploration (ADSE) techniques. We developed the Framework for Automatic Design Space Exploration (FADSE) which is focused on microarchitectural optimizations. This framework includes several state-of-the ar...

In this work we give an extension of Kauffman’s NKLandscapes to multiobjective MNK-Landscapes in order to study the effects of epistasis on the performance of multiobjective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs). This paper focuses on the development of multiobjective random one-bit climbers (moRBCs). We incrementally build several moRBCs and analyze basic working principles of state of the art MOEAs...

The growing importance of electric distribution systems justifies new investments in their expansion and evolution. It is well known in the literature that optimization techniques can provide better allocation of the financial resources available for such a task, reducing total installation costs and power losses. In this work, the NSGA-II algorithm is used for obtaining a set of efficient solu...

A novel multi-objective evolutionary algorithm (MOEA) is developed based on Imperialist Competitive Algorithm (ICA), a newly introduced evolutionary algorithm (EA). Fast non-dominated sorting and the Sigma method are employed for ranking the solutions. The algorithm is tested on six well-known test functions each of them incorporate a particular feature that may cause difficulty to MOEAs. The n...

This paper summarizes the implementation and performance of Nondominated Sorting Genetic algorithm (NSGA-II) [2] for feature selection of remotely sensed hyperspectral imagery. Two step processes have been followed. In first step, a feature subset is selected with optimum spectral and texture information content resulting in a smaller space to be searched in the next step. In the second step, a...

The increasing complexity of the modern control systems has emphasized the idea of applying new approaches in order to solve design problems for different control engineering problems. This paper reports a performance comparison between traditional (linear PID controller) and evolvable methods (evolvable hardware controllers) applied to the problem of three-degrees-of-freedom manipulator contro...

A design and optimization of 3-5 GHz single ended Radio Frequency (RF) Low Noise Amplifier (LNA) for ultra-wide-band (UWB) applications using standard UMC 0.18 μm CMOS technology is reported. Designing of RF circuit components is a challenging job, since even after performing lengthy calculations and finding parameter values it is less guarantee that the design performs as expected. In view of ...

Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm (NSGA) has established itself as a benchmark algorithm for Multi objective Optimization. The determination of pareto-optimal solutions is the key to its success. However the basic algorithm for big problem gives less efficient results, which renders it less useful for practical applications. Among the variants of NSGA, several attempts have been made to r...

Multi-objective optimization methods are essential to resolve real-world problems as most involve several types of objects. Several multi-objective genetic algorithms have been proposed. Among them, SPEA2 and NSGA-II are the most successful. In the present study, two new mechanisms were added to SPEA2 to improve its searching ability a more effective crossover mechanism and an archive mechanism...